Quotes About Self-respect

People who feel superb about themselves generate superb results. Self-respect is a beautiful thing.

But it goes deeper than social approval," the industrialist indicated. "The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself.

The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself. Those with unfathomable personal esteem wouldn't dare send out anything average. It would diminish them too much.

The more you are as a person, the less you need to prove yourself to others.

I believe the humblest is the greatest. Pure leaders are so secure in their own skin their main mission is the elevation of others. They have such self-respect, joyfulness and peacefulness within themselves that they don't need to advertise their success to society in a feeble attempt to feel a little better.

Even as a teenager, Rockefeller demanded to be treated with adult dignity.

second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.

Reacher kept quiet. He could see where this game was going. If he said yes, he'd be expected to hurt the guy badly. Which he had no objection to in principle, but he'd prefer to do it on his own terms. If he said no, Borken would call him a coward with no sense of natural justice and no self-respect. An obvious game, with no way to win. So he kept quiet, which was a tactic he'd used a thousand times before: when in doubt, just keep your mouth shut.

It isn't respectable to beg

There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

Being unashamed is true humility.

Je méprise un homme qui peut être satisfait par une moelle épinière, cet homme ne mérite pas un cerveau humain.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

an ounce of honest pride is better than a ton of false humility, although an ounce of true humility is worth an ounce of honest pride

Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you.

Things I'll never do. You would not feel uncomfortable reading that list, as you will have already admitted that these are things you do not want to do—and will not do.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

unless you value yourself, you won't have the motivation to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthfully, and care for yourself.

I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular.

at my age, if I were sexually harassed, I'd send the guy flowers

Don't be too critical about yourself; have a pretty high opinion of yourself.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.