George Benson Quotes

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

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

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

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

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

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

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.

I fight if I need to, I dance if I need to, yet I won't compromise my integrity and pride.

I always hold my head up high.