Self-respect Quotes

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

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.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

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

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

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

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 .

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

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.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

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.

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.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

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

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.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.