Quotes About Self-respect

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.