Quotes about dignity

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

— Aristotle

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

— Kenneth Burke

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

— Denis Diderot

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

— Edward M. Forster

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

— Emma Goldman

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Washington Irving

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

— Ronald Knox

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

— Philip Massinger

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

— Robert Maynard

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

— James A. Michener

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

— Luigi Pirandello

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

— George Santayana

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

— George Santayana

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

— James Thurber

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

— Young

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

We must live with dignity when we exist.

— Mak Kazeronnie