Quotes About Dignity

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

Some people in the press don't respect people in life. I can put my head on my pillow and sleep great because I respect everyone.

My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Respect for the individual is one of our core beliefs at Walmart.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

I just want to be humble at all times.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.

The partisan warfare fueled by modern technology does not fairly reflect the grace and dignity of the American people.

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

When people spot me, they are really warm. They acknowledge me with smiles and come up, even now, to tell me that I showed a lot of dignity in 'Big Brother.' Or they say, 'I voted for you to win!' which is really sweet.

You never ask a Maasai warrior how many cattle he has; it's like asking someone how much money they've got in their bank account.

The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.

My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so warm, generous, and kind-hearted. She never washed her dirty linen in public. She always maintained her equations with people.

I'm a logical woman and won't resort to washing dirty linen in public.

But do not make the mistake, Seraphina, of supposing that suffering ennobles anyone.

No casualties but my dignity," called the herald, tugging on his chin beard. "Some might say that's no loss at all.