Quotes About Self-respect

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

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

If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

Above all things, respect yourself.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person.