60 Best Quotes And Sayings About Dignity
Dignity is the state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.
1. Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela
2. Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able is courage. Walking away, with your head held high is dignity.
Anonymous
3. Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
4. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Anonymous
5. People ask me, ‘Who is your hero?’My answer, my true answer, is that I am my hero, the me I aspire to be, the very best at everything I put my hand to, treating people with dignity and respect because it’s the right thing to do, surmounting obstacles with justice and empathy and compassion. I don’t need anyone else to live my life for me, to mold me, to tell me what is or isn’t possible. I don’t need a path to follow. I create my own path. I live up to my own dreams. I demand greatness of mind, body, and spirit, not someone else’s, but my own. I am my own hero. Are you yours?”
Chris Kluwe
6. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Anonymous
7. One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox
8. Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
James Frey
9. My dignity is my life; take my dignity and you'll take my life.
Anonymous
10. To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
Dejan Stojanovic
11. Be The Person You Want To Be While Also Never Losing Your Dignity.
Anonymous
12. When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
13. Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him
Anonymous
14. When you lose, lose with dignity. When you win, win with dignity too
Anonymous
15. If it's meant for you, you won't have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.
Anonymous
16. Dignity is the ability to stand strong and tall in the face of adversity while being able to sit with the elderly and crawl with the children. Dignity is taking a stand for your beliefs without closing your mind to other’s opinion. Dignity is being an example by your deeds and through your words avoiding gossip, anger and lies. Dignity will manifest itself in the warmth of your smile, the depth of your love and kindness for your fellowman.
Mychal Wynn
17. Take care of your character because character will define your dignity.
Anonymous
18. I know a bit about the loss of dignity. I know that when you take away a man’s dignity there is a hole, a deep black hole filled with despair, humiliation and self-hatred, filled with emptiness, shame and disgrace, filled with loss and isolation and hell. It’s a deep, dark, horrible fucking hole, and that hole is where people like me live our sad-ass, fucked-up, dignity free, inhuman lives, and where we die, alone, miserable, wasted and forgotten.
James Frey
19. I want to age with some dignity.
Pete Townshend
20. Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.
Bryant McGill
21. Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.
Dr. Steve Maraboli
22. Someone who is worthy of your love will never put you in a situation where you feel you must sacrifice your dignity, your integrity, or your self-worth to be with them.
Anonymous
23. Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
24. Never lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people love and appreciate you when they just aren't willing to.
Anonymous
25. One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J Fox
26. Loyalty, dignity, morals, a good heart, and good character.
Anonymous
27. Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer
28. Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid
29. No matter what people take from you, never let them take away your pride and dignity
Anonymous
30. I may lose many things in my life, but if I lose my dignity, my honor, then I am lost
Anonymous
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31. Maturity is the ability to think, speak & act your feelings within the bounds of dignity.
Anonymous
32. No relationship is ever worth sacrificing your dignity or self respect for.
Anonymous
33. You should never sacrifice three things your family, your heart, your dignity.
Anonymous
34. Death with Dignity is better than Life with Humiliation
Anonymous
35. No Matter What People Take From You Never Let Them Take Away Your Pride And Dignity
Anonymous
36. Don't lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people love and appreciate you, when they just aren't capable
Anonymous
37. Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
38. Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity
Anonymous
39. A real woman is the one who doesn’t breakdown when she comes to know that the only man she ever loved is in love with another woman. She doesn’t make a hue and cry about anything and never shows her tears to anyone. She just moves out of his life gracefully and with dignity.
Aarti Khurana
40. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
41. I see. And who is this author?” “Neil Fucking Gaiman.” “His second name is Fucking?” “No, Leif, that’s the honorary second name all celebrities are given by their fans. It’s not an insult, it’s a huge compliment, and he’s earned it. You’d like him. He dresses all in black like you. Read a couple of his books, and then when you meet him, you’ll squee too.”
Kevin Hearne
Leif found the suggestion distasteful. “I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship
42. Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
43. Treat Everyone You Meet With Dignity And Respect But Always Have A Plan To Kill Them.
Anonymous
44. My dignity is worth more than four dollars.
Shivan Barwari
45. Integrity, dignity and wisdom are the true indicators of beauty
Anonymous
46. You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.
Allan Lokos
47. Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Wendell Berry
48. Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.
Amanda Lindhout
49. In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.
Carlos Salinas
50. Dignity The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict in our lives and relationships.
Donna Hicks
51. The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.
Ruby Dee
52. Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
Lisa Kudrow
53. There is only one terminal dignity – love.
Helen Hayes
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55. Every woman has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. No one can humiliate or verbally abuse you.
Anonymous
56. Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more things.
Pope Francis
57. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
58. I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Mandy Hale
59. The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love your simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people.
Anonymous
60. We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters … much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
Michelle Obama
61. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero
Several duplicates and lots of platitudes. The idea that religion steals dignity is generally true, so long as you remember that Christianity is NOT a religion. In a religion, humans try to reach God. In Christianity, God has reached humanity to bring them salvation.