Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. Profoundly inspirational dignity quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous Dignity Quotes
There is dignity in your being even if there’s indignity in what you’re doing. – Tariq Ramadan
Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart. – Wes Fesler
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. – Michael J. Fox
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. – Laura Hillenbrand
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people – they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world. – Antonio Guterres
You should never sacrifice three things: your family, your heart, or your dignity.
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others. – Mark Twain
Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love. – Bryant H. McGill
Losing your honor in a person’s eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity. – Anum Sattar
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. – Rick Bragg
Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. – Shannon L. Alder
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. – Virginia Woolf
If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows. – Shannon L. Alder
We learned about dignity and decency, that how hard we work matters much more than we do. That helping others means much more than taking advantage of oneself. – Michelle Obama
Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to. – Shannon L. Alder
In love, swallow your pride, but never your dignity. – Carlos Salinas
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. – Virginia Woolf
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man. – Aung San Suu Kyi
Short Dignity Quotes
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. – Aristotle
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one’s conscience, not with that of other people’s judgement. – Fausto Cercignani
Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself; a human and this is the simplest form of dignity. – Rola Mahmoud
Dignity is appreciated by dignity, the pot of dried fish is known to the dog. – Tamil Proverb
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. – Philip Massinger
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. – Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning french or collecting scarves. – Dave Eggers
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. – Dag Hammarskjold
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own. – Pope Francis
Dignity is to have a dream, a strong one, which gives you a vision, a world where you have a place, where whatever it is you have to contribute makes a difference. – Fatema Mernissi
A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. – Confucius
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect. – Beth Moore
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him. – Romain Gary
The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it. – Edwin Osgood Grover
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. – Edwin Percy Whipple
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. – Nelson Mandela
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him. – Cyril Connolly
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. – Ben Jonson
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. – Dejan Stojanovic
Inspirational Dignity Quotes
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. – John D. Rockefeller
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity. – Vanna Bonta
Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life. – Mahatma Gandhi
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. – Baltasar Gracian
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. – George Santayana
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. – Robert Maynard
Dignities are like faces; no two are the same. – Rex Stout
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. – Vartan Gregorian
Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience. – Theodore Roosevelt
Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty? – Cicero
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live. – Laura Hillenbrand
Helping others is a good effort to instill human dignity. – Gift Gugu Mona
We must build a new world, a far better world one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected. – Harry S. Truman
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi
Dignity is priceless Quotes
Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning. – Josa Saramago
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on. – James J. Frey
There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality. – Martin Esslin
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. – Washington Irving
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana
Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites. You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride. – Luigina Sgarro
Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience. – Theodore Roosevelt
Seeing a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it is expected as part of a program with which we feel comfortable. – Lisa Kudrow
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. – Bayard Rustin
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
When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time. – RSCruz
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. – Christina of Sweden
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
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth. – Shannon L. Alder
There’s a dignity in consequences. – James S.A. Corey
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
Honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure. – Allan Lokos
Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. – Criss Jami
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
– Aristotle
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations. – Kofi Annan
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. – Jane Austen
