Self Respect Quotes
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. (Quote by - William J.H. Boetcker)
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. (Quote by - Barry Gibb)
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. (Quote by - Max Nordau)
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. (Quote by - May Sarton)
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. (Quote by - Preston Brooks)
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. (Quote by - Gordon B. Hinckley)
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. (Quote by - Barry Bonds)
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. (Quote by - Jane Haddam)
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. (Quote by - Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von)
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Self Empowerment Self-empowerment - that's learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself. (Quote by - Doc Childre)
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. (Quote by - Peter McArthur)
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. (Quote by - Axel Munthe)
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. (Quote by - Harold Ramis)
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. (Quote by - Preston Brooks)
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. (Quote by - Abraham J. Heschel)
Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. (Quote by - Joe Clark)
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. (Quote by - Dale Turner)
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. (Quote by - John Herschel)
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson)
You don't know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time. (Quote by - Lord Dragnys)
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
I understand the dignity of a life, but our right is much more dignified than life, our freedom, and our self-respect. (Quote by - V.Prabhakaran.)
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. (Quote by - Bruno Bettelheim)
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Self-respect can be a extension of your ego or a priceless virtue. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect. (Quote by - Richard Morris)
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. (Quote by - Whitney Griswold)
The Hidden Power of the Heart Your DNA structure is designed so the choice to function in love is the only choice that brings you fulfillment. Stress is inner biofeedback, signaling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn't to hurt you, but to let you know it's time to go back to the heart and start loving. (Quote by - Sara Paddison)
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
