Quotes About Self-respect

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

You cant spend your life apologizing.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

You don't dress to please a girl—especially not a girl like that. You dress to please yourself. If she doesn't like you for you, then you don't need her.

You don't dress to please a girl—especially not a girl like that. You dress to please yourself. If she doesn't like you for you, then you don't need her.

I wasn't giving him permission to make me feel bad, not anymore.