Quotes About Self-respect

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

"Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, because they don't."

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.

Self-worth is so vital to your happiness if you don't feel good about you, it's hard to feel good about anything else.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age...

You aren't some weak-willed wench. You can control your emotions. Remember all that you've survived. Behave like the queen you are. No one can take your dignity away from you. You lose it only by your own actions.

Around me celestial flowers are falling in a crystal shower. Or are they the tears of the gods who crowd the skies, looking down in sorrow and admiration at my final act of self-respect?

wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

rid myself of what was no longer serving me. I stood up for myself and my own worth. I declared that I deserved to be treated better, and that had to start in the only place I have any control over: how I treat myself. The fact that you are entitled to your hurt, grief, and defensiveness doesn't mean it's working for you.

When you dim your light to please others, the whole world gets darker.

I'm not cocky I just love myself

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

The grandiose person is never really free. First, because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail with far-reaching consequences.

As psychotherapist Dr Alice Miller says: 'the grandiose person is never really free. First, because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail with far-reaching consequences.

To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, Phenobarbital,

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.

All his life he believed everything his father told him. Now he's in his mid-thirties and he's his own man. He hates his father's guts but no longer fears him. He never said NO to the fucker even he was humiliating him in front of his friends. Now he works extra hard to raise his self-respect. It has taken him years to find out who he is. Years spent trying to wash the father blood from his body. He's earned his life.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.