Let Not A Man Guard His Dignity, But Let His Dignity Guard Him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dignity Consists Not In Possessing Honors, But In The Consciousness That We Deserve Them.
- Aristotle
It Is Not Wealth One Asks For, But Just Enough To Preserve One’s Dignity, To Work Unhampered, To Be Generous, Frank And Independent.
- W. Somerset Maugham
No Race Can Prosper Till It Learns That There Is As Much Dignity In Tilling A Field As In Writing A Poem.
- Booker T. Washington
Remember This-That There Is A Proper Dignity And Proportion To Be Observed In The Performance Of Every Act Of Life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Dignity And Love Do Not Blend Well, Nor Do They Continue Long Together.
- Ovid
Be Mild With The Mild, Shrewd With The Crafty, Confiding To The Honest, Rough To The Ruffian, And A Thunderbolt To The Liar. But In All This, Never Be Unmindful Of Your Own Dignity.
- John Brown
There Is A Healthful Hardiness About Real Dignity That Never Dreads Contact And Communion With Others, However Humble.
- Washington Irving
The Only Kind Of Dignity Which Is Genuine Is That Which Is Not Diminished By The Indifference Of Others.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Dignity Comes Not From Control, But From Understanding Who You Are And Taking Your Rightful Place In The World.
- Gordon Atkinson
Self-Respect Is The Fruit Of Discipline; The Sense Of Dignity Grows With The Ability To Say No To Oneself.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Where Is There Dignity Unless There Is Honesty?
- Cicero
Human Dignity Has Gleamed Only Now And Then And Here And There, In Lonely Splendor, Throughout The Ages, A Hope Of The Better Men, Never An Achievement Of The Majority.
- James Thurber
One’s Dignity May Be Assaulted, Vandalized And Cruelly Mocked, But Cannot Be Taken Away Unless It Is Surrendered.
- Michael J. Fox
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