Quotes About Self-respect

try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming

But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.

I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues." Save yourself that sadness if you can, by insisting on nothing less than complete respect.

Make a decision inside of yourself—a deep decision—that you are 100 percent responsible for your actions, and he is 100 percent responsible for his actions. You have zero responsibility for what he does, and he has zero responsibility for what you do.

I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel.

A good woman knows she cannot be all things to all people, and she may, in fact, displease those who think she should just be nice. She is not strident or petty or demanding, but she does live according to conviction. She knows that the Jesus she follows was a revolutionary who never tried to keep everyone happy.

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others.

I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

And so was this. These words—"Not in my presence will you talk about yourself in this way"—they don't brush off easily. Nor should they. Sometimes a phrase lands in your soul with such weight it leaves the deepest impression. I collect these phrases like other people collect stamps and Beanie Babies. I fill the unlined pages of notebooks from Walmart with these phrases. These words that move me are treasures.

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.

I've just reached the age when I don't bother with people I have to make allowances for." Toward

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

I am not in the mood to have my underwear examined.

But what I've got to do if I'm to keep any self-respect at all, he thought, rising stiffly from the bench, while his teeth chattered, is to accept my cowardice, take it all for granted, and think of myself as a nervous insignificant book-worm, who can't do anything but teach Latin and be petted by Miss Le Fleau!

I'm at a point in my life where I will not be yelled at.

shows her in her borrowed clothes, determined to keep her dignity

When somebody touches you...and you really don't wanna be touched, that's not really being touched. You still got you inside of you. And nobody has touched you. Not really. You still got you inside of you. You believe that.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.