Quotes About Self-respect

We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.

I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.

We are treated different because we want to be treated different.

You could be the smartest person on earth, but nobody will care if you can't carry yourself the right way.

Respect and appreciate yourself.This is your responsibility for your soul.

It's good to feel attractive on the outside, but being smart and confident on the inside is what counts.

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.

They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after hisrequest, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

Vanity degrades your soul whereas modesty strengthen it

Be a person of value, but never try to define your worth.

I hate it when girls act stupid 'cause they think it's cute. Intelligence is sexy.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Dignity is particularly important.

you could well be right. But surely the answer is for women to become more assertive and not let themselves be subjected?

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

What they call you is one thing, but what you answer to is so much more important.