"Let not a man guard his dignity,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.”
“Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.”
“There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.”
More on Dignity
“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.”
“It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves”
“I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.”
More on Character
“The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.”
“I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.”
“A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.”