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Quotes About Dignity

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
~ Vartan Gregorian
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
~ Hosea Ballou
Without money honor is merely a disease.
~ Jean Racine
The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
~ Ali Khamenei
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
~ Barbara Tuchman
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
~ Suzanne Vega
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
~ George Washington
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
~ William Davenant
Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello
~ William Shakespeare
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
~ Xunzi
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
~ Laozi
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
~ Thanhha Lai
To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.
~ John Luther Long
Honor is decency without vanity.
~ Arthur Koestler
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
~ William Shakespeare