Quotes About Self-respect

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Know that you are enough, so that if a person tries to make you feel beneath them, you'll have the courage to walk away.

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Revile those who flatter you.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.