Quotes About Dignity

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

I am not a monster, I am just a man.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright – that of equality.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.