Dignity Quotes

“Clothed in my dignity, the only worthy garment, I go my way.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“The gentleman is dignified but not arrogant. The small man is arrogant but not digified”
― Confucius, The Analects

“I want them to see that in the universal human desire to be happy, to develop our gifts, to contribute to others, to love and be loved—we’re all the same. Nobody is any better than anybody else, and no one’s happiness or human dignity matters more than anyone else’s.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“Death alone can make others respect our sufferings; and through death the most pitiable sufferings acquire dignity.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“Your integrity, your dignity, your honor - they aren't for sale. Not ever. Not to anyone.”
― James Patterson, Guilty Wives

“People often confuse weak will with modesty, and vanity with dignity.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze

“... my main objection to Mr. Graham's analogy was the implication that this 'dignity' was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature; and if one did not self-evidently have it, to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“Command respect with style and grace.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“YOU CAN NEVER DIE IN DIGNITY. KEEP LIVING.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor, UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life

“We are to be agents of His great upside down Kindgom, where the outcasts are listened to, the broken are given dignity, and those suffering under the weight of sexual exploitation are rescued and healed.”
― Mary E. DeMuth, We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis

“To live with dignity means you put your worth as a human being above the conscious pursuit of wealth, power and fame.”
― Di Smith, You're Awesome: Living a Fulfilled Life

“A smart city is a city where humans, trees, birds and other animals can grow with all their glories, imperfections, freedom, and creativity. They are not just cities of technology but cities of love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom and equality.”
― Amit Ray, Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth

“Democracy—here and in Britain and France, it hasn't been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russia—even if it has produced industrialists like you, Frank, and bankers like you, R. C., and given you altogether too much power and money. On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy's given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“People who go through life smiling miss out on the dignity of sorrow”
― Liz Nugent, Skin Deep

“For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature: and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. If opium-eating be a sensual pleasure, and if I am bound to confess that I have indulged in it to an excess, not yet recorded of any other man, it is no less true, that I have struggled against this fascinating enthralment with a religious zeal, and have, at length, accomplished what I never yet heard attributed to any other man - have untwisted, almost to its final links, the accursed chain which fettered me. Such a self-conquest may reasonably be set off in counterbalance to any kind of degree of self-indulgence.”
― Thomas de Quincey

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
- Aristotle

Sober character, honest conduct, and sweet talk entitle a real dignity, nothing else.
- Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchedness.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Islam calls that ’the roots of heaven.’ and to the Mexican Indians it is the 'tree of life' — the thing that makes both of them fall on their knees and raise their eyes and beat their tormented breasts. A need for protection and company, from which obstinate people like Morel try to escape by means of petitions, fighting committees, by trying to take the protection of species in their own hands. Our needs for justice, for freedom and dignity— are roots of heaven that are deeply embedded in our hearts, but of heaven itself men know nothing but the gripping roots ...”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“I'd rather take risks and walk with dignity into my grave than settle for mediocrity and live like a slave”
― Sai Pradeep

“میں نے تمہاری خاطر بہت کچھ چھوڑ دیا ۔ احساسات ، جذبات ، خیالات اب ایک جھوٹا وقار باقی رہ گیا ہے ۔وہ تو مجھ سے نہ چھینو ۔ )ایک ہاتھ کی تالی (”
― Mumtaz Mufti, Samay Ka Bandhan / سمے کا بندھن

“I love my all friends and everyone in the way of respect, honour, and dignity.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Keep your dignity to be serious. Do not use words that make the way of mental destruction or hurting of someone's heart and good thoughts. You will lose your trust and honour.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“He must do more than issue orders. The general must appeal to the best that is within his soldiers. The response to trust and confidence is trust
and confidence. A commander who gives men an opportunity to prove themselves will be rewarded with brave deeds. Give people their dignity and they surpass all expectations. Reduce a man to slavery and his efforts will be as meager as his stake is small. In war as in economics, freedom is decisive. (And freedom means, first and foremost, the dignity of the thinking man).”
― J.R.Nyquist

“Would that I knew what others ignore,
Such as has not been repeated,
To say it and have my heart answer me,
To inform it of my distress.
Shift to it the load on my back,
The matters that afflict me.
Relate to it of what I suffer
And sigh “Ah" with relief!
of meditate on what has happened,
The events that occur throughout the land: Changes take place, it is not like last year,
One year is more irksome than the other.
The land breaks up, is destroyed.
Becomes [a wasteland].
Order is cast out,
Chaos is in the council hail ;
The ways of the gods are violated,
Their provisions neglected.
The land is in turmoil.
There is mourning everywhere;
Towns, districts are grieving,
All alike are burdened by wrongs.
One turns one’s back on dignity.
The lords of silence are disturbed;
As dawn comes every day.
The face recoils from events.
I cry out about it,
My limbs are weighed down,
I grieve in my heart.
It is hard to keep silent about it,
Another heart would bend;
But a heart strong in distress:
It is a comrade to its lord.
Had I a heart skilled in hardship,
I would take my rest upon it.
Weigh it down with words of grief.
Lay on it my malady!
He said to his heart:
Come, my heart, I speak to you.

Answer me my sayings!
Unravel for me what goes on in the land,
Why those who shone are overthrown.
I meditate on what has happened:
While trouble entered in today,
And turmoil will not cease tomorrow,
Everyone is mute about it.
The whole land is in great distress,
Nobody is free from erime;
Hearts are greedy.
He who gave orders takes orders,
And the hearts of both submit.
One wakes to it every day.
And the hearts do not reject it.
Yesterday's condition is like today’s
None is wise enough to know it,
None angry enough to cry out,
One wakes to suffer each day.
My malady is long and heavy.
The sufferer lacks strength to save himself
From that which overwhelms him.
It is pain to be silent to what one hears,
It is futile to answer the ignorant.
To reject a speech makes enmity;
The heart does not accept the truth,
One cannot bear a statement of fact,
A man loves only his own words.
Everyone builds on crookedness,
Right-speaking is abandoned.
I spoke to you, my heart, answer you me,
A heart addressed must not be silent,
Lo, servant and master fare alike,
There is much that weighs upon you!”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose my honor, I lose myself.”
― William Shakespeare

“Did you know that you could gain the upper hand and command respect in every situation with self-confidence, balance, dignity, subtle charm and grace? All the whilst remaining true to yourself and not a slave to fashion, but someone that sizzles with sensational style. Yes, indeed you can since you alone are in control of your style and image.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“I’m an old naturalist. I defend all the roots that God has planted deep in the earth — and also the ones He has planted forever in the human soul — call it a need for justice, for freedom, for dignity . . .”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Every official Organization for the Defense of Fauna and Flora had blacklisted him: his 'methods' were deplored and he was reproached also with having often been mixed up in political struggles. And that was true. The roots were innumerable, infinite in their variety and beauty, and some of them were deeply implanted in the human soul — a ceaseless tormented aspiration, a need for infinity, a thirst, a presentiment, a limitless expectation: liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity...”
― Romain Gary

“Peer Qvist, grasping the Bible in his hands and reaffirming to the Court his determination to carry on his defense of the whole infinite variety of roots which Heaven had planted in the earth and also in the depths of the human soul — roots which gripped them like a premonition and a longing, a tortured aspiration, a craving for justice, for dignity, freedom and love.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven