Quotes About Dignity

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

I've always been a proud man.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

That's a huge part foul man; that's just not cool.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

The little man is still a man.

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.