quotations about dignity
We all, we all wear dignity
It covers the strong the weak
We all, we all wear dignity
Even the last, the lost, the least
RELIENT K
"The Last, the Lost, the Least"
All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Winds of Doctrine
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
LAURA HILLENBRAND
Unbroken
Dignity is like air. When you breathe easily, you don't think about it. But, when you don't have enough of it, all you can think about is air, air, more air!
AIGUL AUBANOVA
Dignity: What's That
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
WILLIAM SHATNER
attributed, He's Just Not in the Stars
The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
PLUTARCH
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
To assert dignity is to lose it.
REX STOUT
The League of Frightened Men
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
ALBERT CAMUS
Notebooks 1935-1942
But clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
What people regard as vanity--leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten--I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
PAULO COELHO
The Pilgrimage
Dignity had always gotten us through. It was a choice, and not always the easy one, but the people I respected most in life made it again and again, every single day.
MICHELLE OBAMA
Becoming
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
DICK FRANCIS
Banker
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
SENECA
Epistolæ Ad Lucilium
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.... There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY
The Circus of Dr. Lao
A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Oh, every shattered dream, every soul in need
Has the right to dignity
KATEY SAGAL
"Dignity", Well...
I try to walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
"From Despair to Where", Gold Against the Soul