There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
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.
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.