Blaise Pascal Quotes

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.

All of us wish for a dignity that commands respect. But few have it.

Stop worrying what other people think.

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

Self-respect is the best of all.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

Can't nobody take my pride. Can't nobody hold me down.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.