Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

The post of honour is a private station.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

What is true belongs to me!

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

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

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.