Quotes About Self-respect

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

I am learning how to let my yes be yes and my no mean no without the need to justify why I choose to say either.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others—of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.

But that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments.

She knows her own worth too well for false shame.

Estoy cansada de someter mis deseos a los caprichos de los demás, de no seguir los dictámenes de mi propio juicio en deferencia a los que nada debo y que no me infunden respeto. He

young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; ...it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.

Only peons made excuses for themselves, she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.

It was true, Jeremy took advantage. And she let him. It was his film, and she really didn't care. It was just a body, like a rented suit. Michael had tried to make her feel differently about herself, that it wasn't just for use by others, it was hers, she belonged to herself, she had to occupy herself.

I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

Nobody should feel like they can force themselves into your life how it suits them when it's toxic and unwanted.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

I can't change myself for others as my upbringing has taught me to be nice and cordial with people around me.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

Hard work breeds self-respect.