Dignity Quotes

“Dignity is for boring people.”

— Jennifer DeLucy

No dignity without distance.

— Mason Cooley

“Dignity, always Dignity!”

— Gene Kelly

A Woman with Dignity!!

— Yanka Jaiteh

The dignity of history.

— Henry Fielding

“Work is dignity.”

— Michael Gates Gill

Silence is my dignity.

— Hansika Motwani

Dignity is an anachronism.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Stand tall with dignity and do the next right thing.”

— Nikki Duvall

Respect a man, he will do the more.

— James Howell

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

— Ronald Knox

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

— C. S. Lewis

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

— Alanis Morissette

It is not the position, but the disposition.

— Susan Sontag

It's better to walk in dignity than to ride in shame.

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Nelson Mandela

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

— Thomas Huxley

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

— Adrienne Rich

“The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Honesty may not bring you success, but it always adds to your dignity.

— M.F. Moonzajer

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

— Edward Bellamy

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

— Bruce Catton

A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general.

— Joseph Abboud

“Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,…

— Laurence Boldt

The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief…

— Kim Do-Jin

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human…

— Bernard Lewis

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,…

— John Selden

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one…

— William Manchester

...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't…

— Jim Calhoun

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about…

— Harold Ford, Jr

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something…

— Sylvester Stallone

Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that…

— Enda Kenny

The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the…

— Steven Soderbergh

In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human…

— Norbert Wiener

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own…

— Mother Teresa

“Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time…

— Danail Hristov

There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will…

— James Randi