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Quotes About Self-respect

You are the one who knows yourself – which is to say, you know how much you are worth in your own estimation, and therefore at what price you will sell yourself; because people sell themselves at different rates.
~ Epictetus
Because when you engage in the same things as the masses, you lower yourself to their level.
~ Epictetus
Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life.
~ Epictetus
If you want to be respected, start by respecting yourself.
~ Epictetus
Find satisfaction in following your philosophy. If you want to be respected, start by respecting yourself.
~ Epictetus
But I'll get money, and then share it." If you can acquire riches without losing your honor and self-respect, then do it. But if you lose what is dearest to you, no amount of money can make up for it.
~ Epictetus
We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
~ Erich Fromm
She'd been doing the same things for so long: auditioning, seducing, preening. What if she turned it around, and let the world try to win her for a change?
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
The church degraded woman by destroying her self-respect and teaching her to feel consciousness of guilt in the very fact of her existence. To this day, an open, confident look upon a woman's face is deprecated as evil. Death by torture was the method of the church for the repression of woman's intellect, knowledge being held as evil and dangerous in her hands.
~ Ami McKay
didn't often wake up in a man's bed period.
~ Amy Knupp
Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority. Today
~ Anderson Cooper
Niekuomet nešnek?kite blogai apie save. Tuo ypa? mielai pasir?pins j?s? draugai.
~ Andre Maurois
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat." —Cicely Tyson
~ Andrea Thompson
I always wanted to create awareness and spread the word that it is important to respect one's own body and work towards its well-being.
~ Sai Pallavi
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
~ Frances Wright
A woman should be seen by the luminosity of her grace and not heard shooting her mouth away about praising herself which is so not lady-like.
~ Rekha
You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.
~ Ncuti Gatwa
My self-respect is very dear to me.
~ Nawaz Sharif
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
~ Gabrielle Union
I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.
~ Kyan Douglas
I am not ashamed to say I will speak up to defend myself.
~ Rivaldo
I have got my pride to defend.
~ Jay-Jay Okocha
There's not enough money in this world to make me do something degrading.
~ Fabio Lanzoni
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
~ Naomie Harris