Quotes About Self-respect

We need to love ourselves in order to feel good about who we are. This love is called self-esteem.

It's hard being in the body of someone you don't like, because you still have to respect it.

i don't want my body to be a temple. i don't want it to be worshiped or congregated.

A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect.

Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.

I never abused anybody but myself.

In order to advance in this world, you need to have respect for yourself.

I know my value. Nobody has to tell me my value. I know my value, so no team, no person, no agent, can tell me my value, and I believe in myself.

Being professional makes it easier for me to say no, be honest, and not feel bad about it. However, that doesn't mean that you stay aloof.

You can't be around people who appease you all the time.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

I have never been ashamed of whatever I do.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

Every one esteemed Pons with his kindness and his modesty, his great self-respect and respect for others; for a pure and limpid life wins something like admiration from the worst nature in every social sphere, and in Paris a fair virtue meets with something of the success of a large diamond, so great a rarity it is. No actor, no dancer however brazen, would have indulged in the mildest practical joke at the expense of either Pons or Schmucke.

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Under the general plan of nonresistance one may take the position of imitation. The aim of such an attitude is to assimilate the culture and the social behavior-pattern of the dominant group. It is the profound capitulation to the powerful, because it means the yielding of oneself to that which, deep within, one recognizes as being unworthy. It makes for a strategic loss of self-respect.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.

Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare

I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

how much he'd changed—his whole demeanor and mentality, outwardly and inwardly. He was clean-cut. Wearing glasses. Carrying himself with dignity, like a real man should.

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.