Dignity Quotes

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.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. Not me! (“I Won’t Grow Up”)

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?