Quotes About Dignity

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

All men of honor are alone.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.