Dignified Behavior Quotes

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

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.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation.

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.