Quotes About Self-respect

I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film. If, despite that, they hold it against me, I cannot help it. I cannot do things that I don't want to just to please someone else.

I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

No amount of alcohol or any illegal substance would make me touch him.

if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

Disassociate with people that criticize you. Avoid them at all costs and act indifferent in their presence. At some point they may ask you what's wrong, and you need to speak the truth.

Honour is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honour is a man's gift to himself.

Self-respect, courage, and integrity look good on a man. As recovering Nice Guys chart their own

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

We don't say what we feel even when it would be appropriate, and we fail to set boundaries to people's harmful behavior. We find it hard to ask for a raise or a promotion or the respect due to us. Losing our bold spirit, a positive form of aggression, is losing a deep part of our self, and it is inevitably painful.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

I'm no lord. I've more respect for myself than that.

I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.

We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.

But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.

Don't let pride get in your way. Pride is a luxury that sometimes you can't afford.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.