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Quotations on Dignity

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by Jonathan Swift
(November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745)

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

by Ovid
(20.3.43 BC - 17/18 BC)

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

by Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)

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

by William Somerset Maugham
(January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965)

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

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

by Tennessee Williams
(March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983)

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

by Booker T. Washington
(April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915)

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

by Washington Irving
(April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859)

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



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