Quotes About Dignity

She always paid a high price for her dignity.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Know that you are enough, so that if a person tries to make you feel beneath them, you'll have the courage to walk away.

It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.