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Quotes About Self-respect

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
~ Jackie Robinson
You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
~ Miuccia Prada
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
~ Christina, Queen of Sweden
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
~ Adam Savage
No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
~ Odetta
You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.
~ Margaret D. Nadauld
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
~ Owen D. Young
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
~ Edward Young
When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
~ Marjane Satrapi
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
~ William Shatner
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
~ Will Smith
I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.
~ FKA twigs
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.
~ Rosa Parks
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
A people must have dignity and identity.
~ Andrew Goodman
True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
~ William Wordsworth
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
~ Unknown
I may forget my dignity, but you may not.
~ Mason Cooley