Quotes about Dignity

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

If you think that the dignity of your life cannot be cancelled with the stroke of a pen then I think you should think again.

The more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, ". . and speak all the good I know of everybody.

The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.