Dignity Quotes

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

Well, that’s all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that’s all that’s important… a sense of dignity. And it doesn’t matter if you don’t care, or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don’t care, ’cause, if you don’t […]

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

It is always dangerous to offend the dignity of the ignorant.

To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others to freely be themselves.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.