DIGNITY QUOTES II

quotations about dignity

We all, we all wear dignity
It covers the strong the weak
We all, we all wear dignity
Even the last, the lost, the least

RELIENT K

"The Last, the Lost, the Least"


All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE


Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

LAURA HILLENBRAND

Unbroken


Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

Winds of Doctrine


The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

PLUTARCH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Dignity is like air. When you breathe easily, you don't think about it. But, when you don't have enough of it, all you can think about is air, air, more air!

AIGUL AUBANOVA

Dignity: What's That


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

attributed, He's Just Not in the Stars


There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon


To assert dignity is to lose it.

REX STOUT

The League of Frightened Men


It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

ALBERT CAMUS

Notebooks 1935-1942


But clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Cymbeline


What people regard as vanity--leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten--I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

PAULO COELHO

The Pilgrimage


The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

DICK FRANCIS

Banker


Dignity had always gotten us through. It was a choice, and not always the easy one, but the people I respected most in life made it again and again, every single day.

MICHELLE OBAMA

Becoming


All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights


Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

SENECA

Epistolæ Ad Lucilium


I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.... There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY

The Circus of Dr. Lao


A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Oh, every shattered dream, every soul in need
Has the right to dignity

KATEY SAGAL

"Dignity", Well...


I try to walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
From despair to where
From despair to where

MANIC STREET PREACHERS

"From Despair to Where", Gold Against the Soul