Quotes About Self-worth

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you.

Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

I have never consciously boasted myself but from hereon I make a point not to even unconsciously undermine or degrade myself!

Teach people how to treat you

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.

I may not be a king or a queen, but I'll be damned if I'm not treated like royalty.

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.