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

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

—W. Somerset Maugham

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

—W. Somerset Maugham

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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

—Gordon Atkinson

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

—Ovid

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

—Michael J. Fox

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

—Marcus Aurelius