Every individual has the right to be treated with respect and that is why I’ve built this list of quotes about dignity to remind you that you are worthy!
Below is a list of the best quotes about dignity that will remind you to treat your self with appreciation, pride, and self-respect.
Side note: If I missed some quotes about dignity, feel free to share them down below so I can add it to this list when I update it in the future!
85+ Inspiring & Revealing Quotes About Dignity
1. “There’s a dignity in consequences.” – James S.A. Corey
2. “Without dignity, identity is erased.” – Laura Hillenbrand
3. “I’m single because I was born that way.” – Mae West
4. “Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.” – Wes Fesler
5. “Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.” – Rex Stout
6. “Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.” – Elbert Hubbard
7. “She had the experience to suffer with discretion.” – John le Carré
8. “The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.” – Ben Jonson
9. “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” – William Shakespeare
10. “Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.” – Theodore Roosevelt
11. “Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.” – Criss Jami
12. “Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.” – John Charles Polanyi
13. “Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.” – George Santayana
14. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
15. “Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.” – Vartan Gregorian
16. “Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.” – Edwin Percy Whipple
17. “The quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought.” – Okorie Deborah
18. “Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.” – Laura Hillenbrand
19. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” – Dejan Stojanovic
20. “The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.” – Edwin Osgood Grover
21. “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.” – Virginia Woolf
22. “Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
23. “A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.” – Confucius
24. “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
25. “Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.” – Christina of Sweden
26. “Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.” – Shannon L. Alder
27. “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.” – Virginia Woolf
28. “Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.” – Vanna Bonta
29. “There is dignity in your being even if there’s indignity in what you’re doing.” – Tariq Ramadan
30. “Losing your honor in a person’s eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.” – Anum Sattar
31. “True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.” – Philip Massinger
32. “She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what’s beyond ahead.” – Núria Añó
33. “Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
34. “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” – James J. Frey
35. “To save face, it’s better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.” – Anthony Liccione
36. “A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
37. “Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.” – Shannon L. Alder
38. “Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.” – Criss Jami
39. “No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.” – Shannon L. Alder
40. “There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.” – Martin Esslin
41. “Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning french or collecting scarves.” – Dave Eggers
42. “The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.” – Shannon L. Alder
43. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” – Aristotle
44. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” – Aristotle
45. “Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.” – Romain Gary
46. “The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
47. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
48. “We must build a new world, a far better world one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.” – Harry S. Truman
49. “The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
50. “There is no teacher equal to mother and there’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.” – Amit Ray
51. “I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.” – Greta Garbo
52. “Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.” – Jose Saramago
53. “Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.” – José Saramago
54. “Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.” – Shannon L. Alder
55. “The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.” – Dag Hammarskjold
56. “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
57. “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
58. “Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.” – Rick Bragg
59. “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
60. “Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.” – Robert Maynard
61. “When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.” – RSCruz
62. “Silence is victory and patience is glory. Let silence speak our identity and let patience keep our dignity.” – Aram Seriteratai
63. “To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.” – Beth Moore
64. “There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
65. “If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.” – Elizabeth I
66. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox
67. “Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.” – Pope Francis
68. “To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.” – Mahatma Gandhi
69. “Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one’s conscience, not with that of other people’s judgement.” – Fausto Cercignani
70. “There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.” – Washington Irving
71. “Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
72. “I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand — they only. Know this at last.” – Charlotte Brontë
73. “Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.” – Shannon L. Alder
74. “What’s that? The laundry basket? No, next to it. I don’t see anything next to it. It’s my last shred of dignity. It’s very small.” – John Green
75. “Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.” – Colson Whitehead
76. “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me.” – Octavia E. Butler
77. “Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.” – Roy T. Bennett
78. “The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other’s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.” – Cyril Connolly
79. “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.” – Bayard Rustin
80. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen
81. “I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.” – Roger Zelazny
82. “True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.” – Shannon L. Alder
83. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” – Shannon L. Alder
84. “Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.” – Luigi Pirandello
85. “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” – John D. Rockefeller