Quotes About Dignity

Honour is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honour is a man's gift to himself.

Because beyond ensuring that a body has a name, dignity is one of the only things you can actually offer the dead.

You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

For a' that and a' that,It's coming yet, for a' that,That man to man the world o'erShall brothers be for a' that.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The man's the gowd for a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,A marquis, duke, and a' that;But an honest man's aboon his might,Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.

Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!

For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

Una mujer fácil de obtener no puede valer gran cosa.

Be convinced, that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsiderable, but may, some time or other, have it in their power to be of use to you; which they certainly will not, if you have once shown them contempt. Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. (Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773)

When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts. Ethiophan proverb

The way you carry yourself will often determine how you are treated: In the long run, appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you. For a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others. By acting regally and confident of your powers, you make yourself seem destined to wear a crown.

You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you? Charlie McGuire, Fatherland

more enemies, more honour.

I fear there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction

there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us. Reclaim now, now renew the vision of a human world where godliness is possible and man is neither gook nigger honkey wop nor kike but man permitted to be man.

Men are not potatoes!

A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.