Quotes About Dignity

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself.... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Humility is the best dress you can wear

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Insults are the business of the court.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.