Dignity Quotes

Most popular dignity quotes

By indignities men come to dignities.
Let none presume
To wear an undeserved dignity.
Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty?


It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
By dignity I mean the absence of ludicrous and debasing associations.


It is easier to increase in dignity than to acquire it in the first place.




The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largess of others.

discipline saying no self-respect



Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it, and that it is too much for them.
When a person or a people sells its dignity or bargains it ... everything else loses consistency and ceases to have worth.
There is not a single violation of the dignity of a woman or man that can be justified in the name of any other thing or idea. Not a single one.

happiness virtue

All our dignity consists of thought.  It is from there that we must be lifted up and not from space and time, which we could never fill.  So let us work on thinking well.  That is the principle of morality.
For this is the journey that men make: to find themselves.  If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find: Money, position, fame, many loves, revenge are all of little consequence, and when the tickets are collected at the end of the ride they are tossed into the bin marked FAILURE.

failure know yourself purpose of life
