Dignity quotes

Discover inspiring quotes that celebrate the essence of dignity, embracing self-respect, honor, and integrity. Explore our vast collection to uplift your spirits and inspire a life filled with grace and dignity.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

- Terry Waite

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

- Ricardo Montalban

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

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

- Bill Hybels

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

- Karel Capek

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

- Booker T. Washington

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

- Michael J. Fox

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

- Paul Claudel

A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.

- James Atlas

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

- Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

- Adam Savage

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

- Lisa Kudrow

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

- Aristotle

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

- Ayatollah Khamenei

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

- Kenneth Burke

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

- Victor Hugo

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

- Baltasar Gracian

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

- Greg Lake