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| "A bee may not be an eagle, but it sure can make honey." --- Author Unknown "Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity." --- W. Kelly Griffith "Around a man who has been pushed into the limelight, a legend begins to grow as it does with a dead man. But a dead man is no longer of yielding to temptation to nourish his legend or accept its picture as reality. I pity the man who falls in love with his image as it is drawn by public opinion during the honeymoon of publicity." --- Dag Hammarskj�ld "Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." --- Aristotle "Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it." --- Christina of Sweden "Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor." --- Chiang Kai-Shek "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." --- Thomas Szasz "For as [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he." --- King Solomon, Bible, Proverbs 23:7 "For every minute you remain angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good�Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder." --- Jay Leno "If I want others to believe in me, I must first believe in myself." --- Shane P. Sorenson "If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." --- J. K. Rowling "In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned." --- Jane Haddam "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --- Eleanor Roosevelt "Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." --- Michael J. Fox, in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake "Real success in life means the individual�s conquest of himself; it means how he has bettered himself not how he has bettered his fortune. The great question of life is not �What have I?� but �What am I?�" --- William George Jordan "Satisfied mothers � working or not � have the best adjusted children." --- Etaugh, 1974 "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." --- John Herschel "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." --- Abraham Joshua Heschel "Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power." --- Clint Eastwood "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." --- William J. H. Boetcker "In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself." --- Clay Aiken "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." --- Aristotle "The only dignity which is genuine is that not diminished by the indifference of others." --- Dag Hammarskj�ld "The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem." --- Dr. Laura Schlessinger "The world�s shortest sermon: when in doubt, don�t." --- Author Unknown "Three enemies of personal peace: Regret over yesterday�s mistakes, Anxiety over tomorrow�s problems, Ingratitude for today�s blessings." --- William Arthur Ward "We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable." --- Dominique de Menil "While it is true that losing weight boosts self-esteem, self-esteem is the best diet food there is." --- Anita Canfield For more topics, click here. Submit your favorite dignity, grudgeful, inferiority, self-esteem, self-respect, and related quotations to: [email protected] |
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