Manisha Koirala Quotes

Silence is my dignity.

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.

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

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Grace under pressure.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

I try to handle myself with dignity.

We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.

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

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

In upright demeanor there's ever more poise than all disguised shows of good can do.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

That was Dad. Don't take any dirt from anybody.

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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