Dignity Poems
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
Real Live PreacherRemember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusOne's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. FoxOne dignity delays for all
One dignity delays for all --
One mitred Afternoon --
None can avoid this purple --
None evade this Crown!
Coach, it insures, and footmen --
Chamber, and state, and throng --
Bells, also, in the village
As we ride grand along!
What dignified Attendants!
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!
Her pomp surpassing ermine
When simple You, and I,
Present our meek escutheon
And claim the rank to die!
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 ThurberIt 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 MaughamNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. WashingtonWhat should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Dominique de MenilI 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. RockefellerWit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham HeschelI would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria CallasThe ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
AristotleOther famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose MartiWhen will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
Thabo MbekiThere is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington IrvingFor the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
Todd TiahrtWatching 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 KudrowHANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered -- the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.
Ambrose BierceThe 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