Quotes About Dignity

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.