Self-Dignity Quotes

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

All of us wish for a dignity that commands respect. But few have it.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Above all things, reverence yourself.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.