Dignity quotes

“You never win with violence. You only win when you maintain your dignity.”
Mahershala Ali - Dr. Donald Shirley

“I don't know what to say, really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Pacino - Tony D'Amato

“Your dignity's inside you. Nobody can take something away from you if you don't give them.”
Josh Lucas - Don Haskins

“Your daddy stared adversity in the eye Hardy, and he beat it back with a broom.”
Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh

“Dignity. Always, dignity.”
Gene Kelly - Don Lockwood

“A man's dignity is the one thing that holds him back from running amok.”
James Smith - Godolphin

“An Indian man ain’t nothing without his hair.”
Adam Beach - Victor Joseph

- Baydool: Not "master", Tee. You're free now, you're no longer a slave, remember?
- Tee: My mother taught me. Those with whom we have met, those with great wisdom and dignity, we should call "master".
David Warner - Baydool
Corbin Allred - Tee

“I didn't have a home! Is that what you wanted to hear? I don't have a family. I mean that's the big secret! Are you happy? Huh? Are you gonna feel sorry for me now? Are you gonna hold me close while I tell you I had to change homes every 2 years? I had a bad childhood, big deal. I don't need your sympathy! 'Cause I'm here and I'm livin' on my...” (continue)(continue reading)

Adam Garcia - Kevin O'Donnell

“- Happy Hogan: You know, I got a real job. What do you want? I'm working. I've got something going on, here.
- Tony Stark: What, harassing interns?
- Happy Hogan: Let me tell you something. Do you know what happened when I told everyone I was Iron Man's bodyguard? They would laugh in my face. I had to leave while I still had a shred of dignity....” (continue)(continue reading)
Jon Favreau - Happy Hogan
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“We've stepped out upon the world stage now. Now! With the fate of human dignity in our hands. Blood's been spilled to afford us this moment now!”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“When I was young, just your age, I was very poor, I was starving. One day, I stood in front of the window. A window full of bread, there was just glass between me... and not being hungry anymore, it was so easy. So I broke it and took what I wanted. Then they caught me and put me in chains for almost 19 years. They did things to me... and I did...” (continue)(continue reading)

Liam Neeson - Valjean

“- Gareth Mallory: M, you've had a great run. You should leave with dignity.
- M: Go to hell with dignity. I'll leave when the job's done.”
Ralph Fiennes - Gareth Mallory
Dame Judi Dench - M

“- Hector Cyr: In ancient Malenesia people suspected of crime's would be thrown to the crocodiles. Crocodiles would decide. They would be the judge.
- Kelly Scott: Oh, so that was you wanting to be judged out there?
- Hector Cyr: Maybe I was, and so what? Is that too arbitrary? Better to be measured by my wealth? Better for me to get my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott

“I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity.”
Christoph Waltz - Col. Hans Landa

“- Anton Chigurh: And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
- Carson Wells: You go to hell.
- Anton Chigurh: Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
Javier Bardem - Anton Chigurh

“I had dignity once. Does anybody remember that?”
Gene Hackman - Monroe Cole

“You know what death with dignity is, man? You don't drool.”
Cliff Gorman - Davis Newman

“I loathe the bus. There has to be a more dignified mode of transportation.”
Molly Ringwald - Samantha

“My dignity isn't for sale Nick Naylor. It's not an offer, it's a gift the taxes have all been paid you get to keep it no matter what you do, the idea is your guilt will prevent you from bad mouthing us.”

Sam Elliott - Lorne Lutch

“- V: Nobody's treated me the way you do before.
- Tom: How do I treat you?
- V: Like a person.
- Tom: How does everybody else treat you?
- V: Like a hooker.
- Tom: Why do they treat you like that?
- V: Because I am hooker!”
Melanie Griffith - V
Ed Harris - Tom

“I'm not saying I want him dead. But, should that occur... people die every day, why should he be any different? I'm just thinking on my feet, though. I don't have to decide the death part right now, I can just wait and see how I feel once his dignity's a thing of the past.”

Meg Ryan - Maggie

“Maybe life is shitty. It is shitty. I'll tell you something. I'm not trying to pin life anymore. I don't even fucking understand it. I just want to make it through with some dignity, like everybody else.”
Nicolas Cage - Al Columbato

“- Detective Marcus Burnett: Mike, have some dignity!
- Detective Mike Lowrey: What? I ain't doin' nothin'.
- Detective Marcus Burnett: Cover the titties.”

Martin Lawrence - Detective Marcus Burnett
Will Smith - Detective Mike Lowrey

“Who are you? Do you see you the way you want to be seen? Then you must see character in yourself, discipline in yourself, determination in yourself - to survive - with dignity, no matter how tough the world around you is. Is that who you are? If not, is that who you want to be?”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray