Quotes About Self-respect

It would be truer to say that the citizens' self-respect, in the two countries, is tied up with different attitudes; in our country it depends on his management of his own affairs and in Japan it depends on repaying what he owes to accredited benefactors.

At all events, there can be no reasonable doubt that one of the most effective ways in which to deal with the staggering burden of psychopathic tragedies in America at the present time is by means of an educational program which fosters tolerance in society and a kind of self-respect and independence…

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

L'honneur, c'est le respect de ce que l'on doit aux autres, et surtout de ce qu'on se doit à soi-même.»

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

The grandiose person is never really free; first, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect

At first it will be mortifying to see that she is not always good, understanding, tolerant, controlled, and, above all, without needs, for these have been the basis of her self-respect.

The grandiose person is never really free; first, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

Her father was outraged. "Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself?

They were all things she would not give away in New York, where she watched others tell their drunken bar stories, prostituting their families and their trauma for popularity and booze. These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.

Why any woman give a sh*t what people think is a mystery to me.

We must acknowledge and reclaim our true size. Dignity is important. Self-respect. We cannot lead by pretending to be powerless. We're not. Age is power. Or it can be if it isn't distracted by shopping and cooking and trying to look nineteen.

Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.