Quotes About Self-respect

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you'll ever have.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

To Thine Ownself Be True

So I had to learn that a lopsided relationship doesn't work. The exercise of power is inevitably self-defeating. What happens is that the person without power loses their self-respect, their whole entity becomes less, and the reasons their partner fell in love with them disappear.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. O, be wiser, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love; True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In loneliness of heart.

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

I don't have any hate. I've got some sense. I'm not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him. I'm not that way-out.

Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.

Eso es lo más podrido de tener un novio, que te pasas la vida haciendo excepciones. Cosas que nunca te daría la gana hacer.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the public interest are served, is always present in the public-spirited and the self-respecting. They look upon resigning, not as a cowardice and quitting and a personal disaster, but as the ultimate guarantee of their useful influence and of their personal dignity. - Walter Lippmann

Attention from others leads to self-respect. Acceptance engenders a sense of being inherently a good person. Appreciation generates a sense of self-worth. Affection makes us feel lovable. Allowing gives us the freedom to pursue our own deepest needs, values, and wishes.

Attention from others leads to self-respect. Acceptance engenders a sense of being inherently a good person. Appreciation generates a sense of self-worth. Affection makes us feel lovable. Allowing gives us encouragement to pursue our own deepest needs, values, and wishes.

We can't settle for pieces from a man. We can't trade our happiness and self-respect for the opportunity to be held, cuddled and given tenderness. we can't give ourselves away for the words we want to hear if there's no action behind them. We deserve a healthy man who can make us happy. We can't stop remembering: "All men are jerks until proven otherwise." Until he proves otherwise, we can't get too caught up in his "goodies".

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

but I have clawed back some shreds of decency and dignity and I will not have them taken from me again.

If you mean to abuse me, let me finish my whiskey first.

You don't need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you'll go with confidence.