Quotes about Dignity

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

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.