John Henrik Clarke Quotes

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

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

You should not bear insults.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

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.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

I don't get embarrassed.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

The flip side of humiliation is pride.

It is more honorable to walk in dignity than to ride in humiliation.