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Quotes About Dignity

Good manners are a sign of strength.
~ Dick Francis
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.
~ Paul Strand
silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
~ Arthur Machen
A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on
~ Anne Rice
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
~ Debbie Stabenow
Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.
~ Morgan Freeman
Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
~ Franz Grillparzer
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.
~ Tim Gunn
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
~ Pythagoras
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.
~ Jim Courier
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
~ Joe Paterno
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
~ Michael J. Fox
Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.
~ Ryan Hall
Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.
~ Paulo Coelho
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
~ Demosthenes
Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.
~ Winston Churchill
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
~ Khalil Gibran