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Quotes About Dignity

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
~ John Brown
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
~ H. L. Mencken
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
~ Bruce Lee
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
~ William Shakespeare
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
~ Joseph Sobran
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
~ Philip Massinger
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
~ Voltaire
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
~ Ayn Rand
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
~ Joseph Addison
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.
~ Rachel Vincent, Shift
Defend my honor - Protect my pride
~ Nicki Minaj
Honour always wins, it is inevitable.
~ Ishida Mitsunari
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Honor is the greatest poet.
~ Dante Alighieri
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
~ Publilius Syrus
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
~ Wendell Willkie
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
~ Friedrich Schiller
We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
~ Bob Goff
Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
~ Herman Melville
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
~ Aristotle