英语名人名言：Dignity 尊严

　　Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

　　Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

　　No race can prosper1 till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

　　Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

　　Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

　　Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

　　The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference2 of others.

　　Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

　　Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor3, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

　　James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

　　Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty4, confiding5 to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar6. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

　　John Brown

　　Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

　　Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

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

　　Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake

　　Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

　　Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

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

　　Rabbi Abraham Heschel

　　Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

　　Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

　　Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.

　　Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05

　　It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

　　W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage7', 1915

　　There is a healthful hardiness8 about real dignity that never dreads9 contact and communion with others, however humble10.

　　Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)

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