Quotes About Dignity

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!

Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.