Quotes About Self-respect

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we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

People-pleasing is a form of assholery,

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I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Better to lose your husband than waste your life

I will not consider any offer for an item song. I will turn it down.

Initially after 'Sherlock,' I got offered a lot of swinger movies. There is that thing of keeping your mystique and not taking your clothes off in every job.

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I'm nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Five stage. Clinger. Totally not fucking cool!

The main thing is: Don't take any shit. That's the main thing. The unmain thing is: You are not going to figure anything out except how to get other people to take shit, so forget about everything except not taking any yourself.

Love should almost never make you cry. If you've sobbed or had too many drinks or felt your stomach knot up over a guy more than once for every month you've been together, this is not the love you were meant to have. Thank him for the lessons and move on.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence.

If a man feels unimportant or disrespected, he will have little motivation for improving himself.

When you have said "No," all your pride of personality demands that you remain consistent with yourself. You may later feel that the "No" was ill-advised; nevertheless, there is your precious pride to consider! Once having said a thing, you feel you must stick to it.

He joined with his peers in sneering at the New Bushido as a code for faggots, but an ancient vein of honor in the young Kassad's soul secretly resonated to the thought of a samurai class whose life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.

life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.