Quotes About Dignity

Most women say 'Please speak to me from the waist up: my brain, my eyes.'

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.

Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.

When I go to hotels, sometimes I find waiters and people who do not address me as 'Mr.' or address me as a normal guest would have been addressed, simply because my name is Maddy. I find that slightly offending, but I don't react to it thinking that maybe the name is so casual that people think it's a buddy that you are talking to.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

It takes a great person to walk away from money.

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

I was a kitchen porter for an hour at the Bank of England when I was 18. In the cafe, someone clicked their fingers and shouted, 'Boy, come and clear my table.' I walked out.

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

I wasn't around in the old days, but if you look at guys from the 70s, 80s and 90s, back then these guys were the kind of guys that if you walked up to them in a bar you would not go up to them and talk trash to.

Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

Nobody walks over me, ever, and no-one will walk over me, ever.

I've always said that I'm an employee and I respect that status but I'm the type of guy who walks in the front door and I'll walk out the front door if it's not right.

A true champion walks off with his head high.

I'll respect any man that walks into the ring but people like Eddie Hearn and Joe Gallagher who've never taken a slap in the mouth in their lives shouldn't be disrespectful towards me and other fighters.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.