Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start. (Quote by - Seneca)

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. (Quote by - Washington Irving)

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own light This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in another. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

I adapt to almost anything. The primary condition is that one of my elementary rights be respected my dignity. (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)

A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasure she is. A REAL man will not attempt to rip her precious pearl from it's protective shell, or persuade her with charm to give away her treasure prematurely, but he will wait patiently until she willingly gives him the prize of her heart. A REAL man will cherish and care for that prize forever. (Quote by - Leslie Ludy)

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions. (Quote by - Vincente Fox)

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. (Quote by - Samuel Ullman)

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. (Quote by - Bayard Rustin)

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity(Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

I think he taught people the dignity of life and the dignity going into that last phase, toward death. (Quote by - Jon Voight)

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. (Quote by - Aristotle)

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation. (Quote by - James Atlas)

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. (Quote by - Robert Maynar)

Why should we be frightened? No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans, those Americans living in this land today. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. (Quote by - Romain Gary)