Quotes About Dignity

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]