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

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

Inspirational Doe Character Wisdom Honor Respect Dignity Clever Deserving Possessing Human Dignity Good Character Personal Dignity Best Character

Author:Aristotle

“I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.”

Character Realizing Dignity Intelligent Fundamentals Vulnerable Comic Vulnerability Insecure Macho

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work - and in my life.”

Thinking Knows Long Two Hard Character Five Feet Messages Dignity

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.”

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.”

Giving Wells Character Position Proud Dignity Add Carriages

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.”

Ifs Trying Littles Character Use Dignity

Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought

“A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.”

Knows Men Littles Character Known Dog He Man Depends Dignity Smell Characteristics Coats Tailors

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.”

Character Form Law Force Walks Levels Dignity Wit Welcome Ice Distinction Majesty Carriages Immunity

Book:Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”

Made Character Facts Felt Interesting Numbers Design Fine Perception Dignity Engaged Agony Exquisite Incessantly Interesting Characters Dissecting Scalpels

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.”

Soul Character Age Moral Pure Skills Dignity Management Characteristics Mechanism Inferiors Nineteenth Century Civilised

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.”

“You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.”

Doe Character Age Dark Secret Pride Birth Gay Dignity Twenties Bounds Graves Mysterious Manners Firm Frank Modesty Decency Respectful Seeming Be Respectful

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.”

Source: Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852

“Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.”

People Thinking Made Character Humanity Quality Exercise Degrees Dignity Manners Titles Good Man Stamps Transport Good Manners Genealogy Good Nature Haughtiness

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.”

Character Culture Civilization Dignity Tests Clothings Truest

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.”

Want Mind Wells Self Character Suffering Economy Produce Waste Dignity Denial Impart Strength Of Character Self-denial

Author:Morarji Desai

“Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.”

Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.”

Real Character Fear Dignity Humble Contact Dread Communion Personal Dignity Hardiness

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.”

Ifs Art Character Shows Sound Emotion Greatness Music Is Dignity Absolutes Very Good Noble Tenderness Nobility Pompous Popular Music

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.”

Mind Has Beens Character Names Quality Moral Stage Fashion Depends Dignity Possession Manners Generous Gentleman Bows Homage Personal Qualities

Author:Samuel Smiles

“Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.”

Mind Ends Character Names Principles Divine Holy Dignity Notion Administration Related Immortal Attributes Reverence Everlasting Piety Felicity

Author:William Samuel Johnson

“I would like to be remembered as someone who gave it all and went for it all, As a woman of strong conviction, character, dignity, and talent who always put God first.”

Firsts Character Strong Talent Dignity Conviction Remembered God First Put God First

Author:Zulay Henao

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”

Men Mind Character Virtue Goodness Dignity Busy Wretched Deities Mischievous

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes

“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.”

People Mean Doe Character Government Nations Behinds Doors Land Worst Planets Like You Trump Office Highest Dignity Criminals Suits Presidential Regimes Drones Suits You Regime Change

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.”

People Kind Character Used Levels Party Moral Gone Morality Standards Adults Dignity Democrat Aspire Decency

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.”

Way Want Littles Doe Ends Character Helping Body Life Is Choices Fall Loses Destiny Broken Dignity Edges Painful Bones Odds Cliffs Landing Complete Freedom

Author:Etgar Keret

“With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such dignity - he came not from - as he said - not from hate but from honor, from a sense of his own human dignity. And to me, to my mind, there could be no greater character played.”

Men Mind Humans Said Character Problem Hate Black White Acting Roles Greater Honor Dignity Human Dignity

Author:Paul Robeson

“You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.”

May Character Speak Teacher Humility Proud Speech Conscious Dignity Angry Neighbor Guilty Manners Despise Physicians Harsh Careless Disrespectful

Author:John of Kronstadt

“When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.”

Source: The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface

“If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."”

Ifs Self Character Asks Voice Answers Silence Courage Mystery Holy Dignity Fruit Endurance Reverence Self Control Silence Is Cornerstones True Courage

Book:The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World

Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World

“One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.”

Life Giving May Character Running Certain Fighting Challenges Forever Return Losing Dignity Meetings Outcomes Defeated Assurance Signing Warrants

Author:Sigurd F. Olson

“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”

Men Character Motivational Attitude Dignity Headstone

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.”

Character Force Levels Dignity Wit Welcome Distinction

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.”

Men Character Names Poor Fit Dignity Cat Old Man

Author:Josh Billings

“Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.”

“For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.”

Giving Doe Character Consciousness Meditation Becoming Needed Conscience Dignity Function Technique Commandments Becoming More

Author:Rajneesh

“Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”

Life Character Remember Dignity Performances Proportion

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”

Men Humans Character Age Achievement Dignity Lonely Majority Now And Then Here And There Splendor Human Dignity Better Man

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“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.”

Character Honest Honor Dignity Rough Liars Crafty Thunderbolts Confiding Ruffian

Author:John Brown

“If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.”

Source: The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Together with the Journal of the Federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution

“I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.”

Way Has Beens Stills Character Dignity Saved Marginalized

Author:Jodie Foster

“It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.”

Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

“Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.”

“The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.”

Self Matter Character Happens Winning Walks Pride Dignity Ultimate Competition Depth Reaching Capability Self Empowerment

Author:Billy Mills

“Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.”

Self Character Dignity Add Recognition Sovereignty

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.”

Persons Character Shows Dignity Ridicule

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary