Quotes About Self-respect

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

Men respect standards- get some!