Quotes About Self-respect

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you.

Respecting yourself is key - physically and mentally.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.

I have never consciously boasted myself but from hereon I make a point not to even unconsciously undermine or degrade myself!

Teach people how to treat you

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

Don't talk much and save your dignity.

Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Self Respect " respects boundaries, yours or other's, "Ego" is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.