Quotes About Self-respect

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I'm not such an idiot that I don't realize that if a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it again.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You ain't got no self-respect, you feel like an insect Well don't you worry buddy, cause here he comes

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man's pride is about the only thing he has that's worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn't have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

E' solo rispettando se stessi che si può esigere il rispetto degli altri, è solo credendo in se stessi che si può essere creduti dagli altri

Tylko wtedy,kiedy b?dziemy szanowa? samych siebie, mo?emy wymaga? szacunku od innych, tylko wtedy, kiedy uwierzymy w siebie samych, inni uwierz? w nas.

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.

What is self-esteem? Self-esteem!

As the saying goes, pull in your belly and your rump sticks out—and it works the same way with self-respect too.

If you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of.

Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

The risk he was taking had to pay off. He had to win Mazy for himself. Even if he had to forfeit his own self-respect to make it happen. It was worth it to keep her from making a mistake again.