Quotes About Dignity

I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of planning ahead, and the joy you get from serving others. Not to mention how to collect eggs, shear a sheep, and bail hay by hand.

We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

I was very pleased to see that things have come far, far away from the Diva Search days where it was, 'Let's have a bunch of girls in bikinis flop around and look stupid so the public can vote them on or off the show.'

I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

You can't buy class.

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

I would rather clean than beg.

A person's body changing is simply not clearance for you to talk about it.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

You don't want to seem like a whiner, complainer. You don't want to seem like you don't appreciate certain people, certain fans, certain coaches, criticisms. You want to be professional about it. But everybody's got their opinions, from the top to the bottom, and it's their opinion, you respect it. But nobody does our job better than we do.

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

I am not a saleable commodity.

When a person thinks that you are not competent enough to do his film or work with him, one should not ask for work from that person.

I don't feel I want to complain about anything that's said about me.

Always maintain your composure.