Quotes about Dignity

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.