Quotes About Self-respect

The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else.

With all else that's been taken from us, we ask that you leave us our name, our self-respect, our sense of belonging to the great human family of which we are all part.

Certo, lo riconosco, la castità è spaventosa: ma soltanto nei primi tempi che la si sceglie ed affronta... Poi avviene qualcosa di simile, lei mi può capire, a quel che succede nell'arte, per chi la fa: i limiti e le preclusioni espressive ne sono la forma, non sono limiti e preclusioni. Allo stesso modo, la castità è la forma più sublime cui l'amor proprio può accedere: un far diventare arte la vita.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Saying "no" to yourself can be a way of saying "yes" to yourself.

When you put your foot down and say, "I will not allow myself or the kids to be treated this way anymore. It's destructive to me, to them, and to our marriage," you are not going against God by speaking the truth in love. You are standing for goodness, for truth, and for the healing and restoration of your marriage.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

If you don't value and respect yourself, nobody else will.

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced

Gute Erziehung besteht darin, dass man verbirgt, wieviel man von sich selber hält und wie wenig von den anderen.

I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards.

The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?

Unii m? vor g?si caraghios, semeÅ£: puÅ£in îmi pas?! Trebuie s? ÅŸtiu a înfrunta râsul ÅŸi ocara, cu condiÅ£ia s? nu le merit.

mas también con la satisfacción interior, que experimentaba por vez primera, de poder decirme: "Merezco mi propia estimación; sé preferir mi deber a mi placer".

Above all he is jealous of his own self-respect; this is his most valued possession and it would be a real loss to him were he to acquire the respect of others at the expense of his own.

What makes or breaks a man is not what people think of him, but what he thinks of himself.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.