Dignity Quotes

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Those people who are "sticking on their dignity" are continually losing friends, making enemies and fostering a spirit of unhappiness in themselves.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, pretty much as it does to dignity of carriage; give us a proud position and we are impelled to act up to it.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression.

In her view, people, even if they had behaved deplorably in life, deserved a modicum of dignity in death. Especially family.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Dignity of manner can only result from a lofty sense of superiority, either mind of position.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Ambitious men raised once to dignity, accuse afterward all other estates of insufficiency.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

True dignity is blended with the most placid mildness and condescension.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect.

Human dignity is... the value that belongs to every human being simply by virtue of being human.

It is easier to add dignity than to begin with it.

Keep in mind that you don't have to fight a battle every day in class to maintain your dignity and self-respect.

Be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Freedom is to live with dignity.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity.