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Quotes About Dignity

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
~ Ronald Knox
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .
~ Silvio Berlusconi
Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.
~ Stephen Mansfield
No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.
~ Stephen Spender
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
~ Sydney Smith
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
~ Thomas Browne
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
~ James F. Cooper
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
He who is less than just is less than man.
~ John Howard Griffin
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
~ John Milton
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
~ Confucius
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
~ Confucius
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
~ Denis Diderot
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
~ Frederick Douglass
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
~ George Santayana
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
~ Nikolai Gogol
If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.
~ Paul Gascoigne
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
~ Agnes Macphail
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
~ Albert Camus
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
~ Albert Einstein
Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.
~ Ayn Rand
A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.
~ Lucius Accius
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero