Quotes About Dignity

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

A good man never fights with a woman.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.

Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge.

Tengo para mí que honras y dineros casi siempre andan juntos, y que quien quiere honra no aborrece dineros, y que quien los aborrece que se le da poco de honra.