Famous Quotes
171 Quotations with Dignity.
- 1. W. Somerset Maugham: It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to wor ...
- 2. Rabbi Abraham Heschel: Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the abi ...
- 3. Cicero: Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
- 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, ...
- 5. Aristotle: Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we dese ...
- 6. George Santayana: The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the e ...
- 7. Aristotle: The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the bes ...
- 8. Maggie Kuhn: The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by yo ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 18. Michael J. Fox: One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be tak ...
- 19. Dominique de Menil: What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the o ...
- 20. W. Kelly Griffith: Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.