Leisure with dignity.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

— Henry James

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

— Rumi

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a…

— John Taylor

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

— G. Stanley Hall

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he…

— Friedrich Schiller

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't…

— Jill Scott

The dignity of man is in free choice.

— Max Frisch

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.…

— Stanley Milgram

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve…

— William Shakespeare

I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to…

— Malala Yousafzai

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a…

— Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau