Quotes About Dignity

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

Never bow to the wicked. Never obey the command of someone who is unworthy.

Your hand has reached into our souls and tried to take our dignity, and we remain unbowed. I challenge you to come forth and answer me!

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from the." The shootist.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." - J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." ~John Bernard Books

I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Are you out of your princely wits?" What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man.

I am the son of Julius Caesar, and I am consul of Rome. You will not call me boy again.

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which was simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man. It was a knowledge of which he could not speak, but one which changed him, once he had it, so that no one could mistake its presence.

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realise that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Samuel George looked closely at the freed Negro facing him and he thought that though the man had the look of being familiar with time he bore none of the marks that time could leave. He was well built and well muscled, carrying his head high. There was gray in his hair, but his face was furrowed more by laughter than by years.

True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

a lady to her fingertips.

Dignity, virtue, affability, and bearing ," Mrs. Lytton recited over and over, turning it into a nursery rhyme. Georgiana would glance at the glass, checking her dignified bearing and affable expression. Olivia would sing back to her mother: "Debility, vanity, absurdity, and… brainlessness!