Quotes About Dignity

It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

It's nice to be in a show where it's not based on taking your shirt off.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

In the same way we all have a right to bear arms, we all have a right to live.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

I have a lot of respect for who beats me and that's it.

I don't beg.

I'm not the type of guy to be begging for a fight.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

I am a person who believes in giving due respect to everyone.

I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.

Dignified theatricality is an essential element of power.

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows

Wine, furniture, music, horses, and linen consumed Jefferson's resources. "For the articles of household furniture, clothes, and a carriage Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I have been obliged to anticipate my salary from which however I shall never be able to repay it," Jefferson wrote to Monroe.21 "I will pray you to touch this string, which I know to be a tender one with Congress, with the utmost delicacy. I'd rather be ruined in my fortune, than in their esteem." He

This isn't fair, Dad," Jeb said. "This isn't fair to you." His father cut him off. "What are you talking about, fair?" Bush said. This was politics; this was real life. "Nobody owes us a damn thing. We're going to leave this city with our heads high and I don't want to hear that anymore." Bushes didn't whine. "Do your best and don't look back"—that was the code.

In a twenty-first-century hour when the presidency has more in common with reality television or professional wrestling, it's useful to recall how the most consequential of our past presidents have unified and inspired with conscious dignity and conscientious efficiency.

what I believe true dignity consists, that is to say, honesty, propriety of conduct, and honest independence.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds

Sure, he's an ass, but remember, I have to live in their house. Anyway, that's how you treat people like that: Make 'em know how dumb they are, and they go away feeling a little less pleased with themselves.

In an age when politicians are judged first of all on personality, when the public assumes all of them to be deceitful, and when it's easier and much more pleasurable to laugh about a political issue than to think about it, Johnson's apparent self-deprecating honesty and lack of concern for his own dignity were bound to make him a hit.

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.