Quotes About Dignity

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

A job provides so much more than a paycheck. It provides a sense of dignity and belonging. It gives you the opportunity to learn, grow, and be part of a team - or, in my case, part of a band.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

I don't live for publicity or glory.

I'm not going to get into complaining publicly about fouls. Just not going to do that.

One of the things people learn with me is I don't need to pull someone else down to build myself up, and I will live and die by that rule.

No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

Definitely I don't want to be a punching bag for some other fighters who's gonna make some name, records off of me.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.

My parents have always wanted me to pursue a dignified career.

I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.