Quotes About Dignity

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Honour follows those who flee it.

Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.

The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.

I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone's tunes.