Immanuel Kant Quotes

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I am a very proud person.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Better to be disliked than pitied.