Quotes About Dignity

Be charming at any age.

If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you'll stay a 3rd class citizen.You're better than that.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others.

Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

Do every detail of your day's work as though it was to be viewed by a Master eye. Make every job a great job. Put Dignity and Joy and Enthusiasm into everything attempted, forgetting not for the shortest minute that — Success Power is in the Reserve.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small. If you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand. Nothing. And when you take risks, insults by half-men, small men, those who don't risk anything, are similar to barks by non-human animals. You can't feel insulted by a dog.

in Arabic it is called Shhm—best translated as nonsmall. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

The problem of lumpy payoffs is not so much in the lack of income they entail, but the pecking order, the loss of dignity, the subtle humiliations near the watercooler.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

The optimal solution to being independent and upright while remaining a social animal is: to seek first your own self-respect and, secondarily and conditionally, that of others, provided your external image does not conflict with your own self-respect. Most people get it backwards and seek the admiration of the collective and something called "a good reputation" at the expense of self-worth for, alas, the two are in frequent conflict under modernity.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

dignity is worth nothing unless you earn it, unless you are willing to pay a price for it.

Stay robust to how others treat you.

Virtue is not something you advertise.

But you need to remain understated and maintain an Olympian calm in front of others.

And I will keep mentioning that I have no other definition of success than leading an honorable life.

I have a penchant, an appetite for writing lives, even unhappy ones, in the course of which the person holds on to a certain dignity up to the end, in spite of the disappointments, the things unfinished, the suffering…

I choose to value myself, to treat myself with respect, to stand up for my right to exist.

If integrity is a source of self-esteem, then it is also, and never more so than today, an expression of self-esteem.

The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.

It was not painful to behold this look; for, though dim, it had not the imbecility of decaying age.

it was cause enough that the world was not worthy to be any longer trodden by his feet.

On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.