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Quotes About Dignity

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
~ George W. Bush
Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.
~ Giorgio Napolitano
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?
~ Blaise Pascal
Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
~ Chuck D
Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...
~ Condoleezza Rice
Self respect beats social approval, every time.
~ Robin Sharma
If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.
~ Sandra Bernhard
Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives
~ William J. Clinton
Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.
~ William Shakespeare
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books
~ Julian Clary
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
~ Madeleine Albright
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss them aside, so in time they become our dignity.
~ Mark Doty
You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.
~ Mark Lawrence
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
~ Martha Beck
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
~ Mark Twain
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
~ Mark Twain
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
~ Mark Twain
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
~ Mark Twain
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
~ Mark Twain
Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.
~ Mark Twain
I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.
~ Mark Twain
Without doubt modesty is nothing less than a holy feeling;
~ Mark Twain