Quotes About Dignity

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

Lives in stories have direction and meaning. Even stupid, meaningless lives, like Lenny's in "Of Mice and Men," Acquire through their places in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being Stupid, Meaningless Lives, the consolation of being exemplars of something. In real life you do not get even that.

There is something...more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

It is also a matter of greater consensus than ever that the high and equal status of human beings entitles them to some basic political freedoms, such as the rights to speak and to be free from torture. When it comes to what share people ought to get of the good things in life, however, consensus is much harder to achieve.

and in general it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am respected and honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to know now how to receive so much reverence, which at the beginning I could not tell how to do.

But, learn that although all men are for sale, they don't sell themselves to all buyers.

Curiosity, however sharp, must wait on dignity.

Orsini did not wait for compliments. Reserve is best countered by reserve.

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.

You don't have to look the part, just put your price.

No disgrace to be poor," as Mrs. Starwood says, "but cussed unhandy.

Getting old is scary business. Seems to me when a body has worked hard all his life and never earned nothing extra to put away, there ought to be some way to make his last days peaceful. I'll tell you, I don't want to live off my kids, and I sure don't want to live in some old folks home on charity. Best way, I reckon, is not to think about it, but that ain't my way of doing things.

Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.

I am just as worthy as the next man," Onorato would think, "even if he is rich or from an important family.

Well," he said, "I'm guessing your client is either a magician or a pervert. And I mean both of those terms with the highest respect.

I am a lady-in-waiting, and she is the princess. No, the empress. The empress of the world.

I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.

You can't treat people's feelings as thought they were items on a marketplace.

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.