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Quotes About Self-respect

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.
~ Ralph Bunche
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
~ Dale E. Turner
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?
~ Tina Fey
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
~ Fiona Apple
I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
~ Little Milton
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
~ Ayad Akhtar
Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way.
~ Too $hort
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
~ Samuel Smiles
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
~ Thomas Szasz
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
~ Ayn Rand
Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.
~ Tucker Max
Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
~ Georges St-Pierre
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.
~ Kevin James Breaux
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.
~ Sharon Olds
If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.
~ Kristen Stewart
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
~ Frederick Douglass
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
~ William Powell
Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.
~ Evander Holyfield
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
~ Joan Didion
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.
~ Rudolf Rocker