Quotes About Self-respect

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Only someone capable of honoring each step he takes can comprehend his own worth.

Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!

When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success. I have seen so many people suffocated by success, making mistakes which ended up destroying years of work, yielding to heavy drinking, becoming aggressive, tough, bitter. These people are distant from themselves, and distant from others.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.

A person who respects herself isn't boastful or pushy but is secure in a way that inspires confidence.

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don't like everyone, everyone doesn't like us, and that's okay.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

Lower himself! says the lady, with a toss of her head. No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

If you are refusing an alcoholic drink, for instance, you don't need to justify your refusal. A simple respectful "No thanks" will do. You know your Yes—that is essential—but sometimes you keep it to yourself, because it is your business and not theirs.

Learn to see yourself as a pleasant person, courteous and respectful, and learn to do those things that a courteous and respectful person would do.

If you as a woman don't have respect for yourself don't expect for a man to respect you.

To be humble and modest does not entail self-derogation or self-humiliation.

True self-respect, according to Mencius, is based on the vales of benevolence, dutifulness, conscientiousness, truthfulness, and delight in what is good. Bravery, in Chinese philosophy, is the quality that allows people to pursue those values, hold steadfast to them in times when they are challenged, and remain true to them when faced with conventional social ideals that conflict with full human excellence.

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.