A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.
~James Atlas

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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
~Steve Martin

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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.
~John Brown

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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
~Immanuel Kant

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Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
~Ovid

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Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
~Real Live Preacher

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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
~Aristotle

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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~Sargent Shriver

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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

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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
~W. Somerset Maugham

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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
~Quincy Jones

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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
~Beverly Sills

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
~Booker T. Washington

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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
~Michael J. Fox

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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
~Sting

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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~Rabbi Abraham Heschel

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Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
~Kjell Magne Bondevik

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The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
~Lech Walesa

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
~Dag Hammarskjold

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The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
~Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
~Lech Walesa

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The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
~Bill Clinton

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
~Washington Irving

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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
~Herman Melville

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
~Herman Melville

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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
~Baltasar Gracian

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Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
~Lisa Kudrow

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