Dignity Quotes

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

~ Nicholas Sparks

A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

~ David Graeber

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

~ Michael Scott

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

~ Colson Whitehead

We must bring back dignity to hard work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Countries which have a different base, for example, a Christian one (or at least one with the memory of a Christian foundation) may indeed act most inconsistently and horribly. But when a state with a materialistic base acts arbitrarily and gives no dignity to man, internally or externally, it is being consistent to its basic presuppositions and principles.

~ Francis A. Schaeffer

And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.

~ Osyp Nazaruk

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

~ J.m. Coetzee

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.

~ Mildred D. Taylor

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

~ Victor Hugo

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

~ John Le Carré

Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

~ Dan Groat

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What's that?The laundry basket?No, next to it.I don't see anything next to it.It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

~ John Green

It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

~ John Green

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

~ Dave Eggers

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

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

He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served his dish, he would promptly cut it in half and ask for a to-go container. Portions are too big anyway, he’d grumble, patting his waistline. He’d only give away his food if the corners were cleanly cut, as he believed a homeless person would just feel worse eating food with ragged bitemarks at the edges – as if, he said, they are dogs, or bacteria. Dignity, he said, lifting his half-lasagna into its box, is no detail.

~ Aimee Bender

LADIES!!!! You are not a SEXUAL OBJECT! - not a PUNCHING BAG _ not a target for EMOTIONAL ABUSE! You worth more than that! You were created by God to be a Partner to MEN not a SLAVE, to provide Strength and support to them not to be used and manipulated by them, to submit to them not to become fools in that process. You have your Dignity and Self Worth. Never sacrifice those!

~ Bolanle John

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

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

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

~ Dick Francis

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

~ Charles Dickens

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper.

~ George Eliot

The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.

~ Richard Flanagan

He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.

~ Hyeonseo Lee

Shh,” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.

~ Lisa Mantchev

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

~ Antonia Fraser

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

~ Steven Erikson

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.

~ Wole Soyinka

When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.

~ Chris Marlow

Familiarity increases carnality.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To respect my nature is to know my nature.

~ Petra Hermans

It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.

~ Lydia Davis