Quotes About Self-respect

In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

No one can take your honor from you; to lose it, you must give it away...honor is always sin your own hands.

Non volevo le loro voci nella mia mente, le loro idee su di me, le loro storie o i loro problemi personali. Perché avrebbero dovuto volere i miei?

Don't thank people for giving you what you should already have

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to.

Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to.

Be careful of your dignity, is what I am saying. It is not always your friend.

There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect at last—especially when it comes to creating something brave and new.

No more verbal tap-dancing for pennies of affirmation.

there is a profound sense of honor to be found in looking after yourself, and that honor will resonate powerfully in your work; it will make your work stronger.

There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect

You're as good as any other living soul on this earth. Whether other people know that or not doesn't really matter as long as you do.

Now, I'm not the sort to find fault in myself just because others do;

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

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

Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.

you don't value me, then I must not be valuable.

This book is dedicated to all the women out there who no longer have the patience or desire to put up with any nonsense.

A man in chains need not be a slave. If he has pride and self-respect he is a free man though a prisoner, and a constant danger to his jailers. Conversely, a slave who escapes is not a free man, but a runaway slave who may be caught and returned to servitude. A slave is one who accepts the identity ascribed to him by a master: "You are an inferior and unworthy person and so will remain, and therefore must serve me with obedience and humility.

that, we are not the type of people who chase down others who spurn us.

A sane person would be terrified by now, he knew, ranting and rambling and promising to give the man with the gun anything he wanted. But Logan had learned a long time ago that there was nothing you could give a man with a gun to make him happy. Men with guns were only satisfied when they took . And Logan was going to hang on to the last of his self-respect for as long as he possibly could.