Self-respect Quotes

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and al...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, eve...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two us...

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Knowing your limits, and that there is a limit to getting what you want, comes from a sense of self-...

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday...

The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it ...

Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have ev...

[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after ...

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which s...

There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that...

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tri...

But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because th...

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Bla...

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen t...

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by ...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I wi...

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-kn...

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never...

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacen...

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would...

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are...

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to ones...

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated...

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Havi...

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar l...

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the ...

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...

These characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory...

One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, esp...