Quotes About Dignity

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

A good reputation is better than fame.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

the best of all good friends is pride.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

The state was made for man, not man for state.