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Quotes About Dignity

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
~ Manisha Koirala
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
~ Mark Twain
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The dignity of man is in free choice.
~ Max Frisch
Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
~ Nelson Mandela
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
~ Plautus
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
~ Plautus
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
~ Plutarch
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
~ Pope John Paul II
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
~ Oscar Wilde
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
~ Robert Burns
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
~ Robert Burns
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
~ Samuel Richardson
When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
~ Simone Weil
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
~ Sophocles
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
~ Sophocles
I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
~ Tamora Pierce