Quotes About Self-respect

Besides, a man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

A man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Your impulse to protect me conflicts with my need to protect my self-respect. Sorry. Besides. I have this vaguely uneasy feeling you're offering to protect me from you. That's not doing me a kindness -- that's coercion.

You don't have to beg people to stay. You are a gift. You are a prize. You are exceptional. Let the wrong people go and God will send people that value who you are and people that can't wait to be with you.

Lo que una persona diga de ti no define quién eres. Su opinión de ti no determina tu dignidad propia. Deja que eso te resbale como si fuera agua sobre el plumaje de un pato. Esa persona tiene todo el derecho a tener una opinión, y tú tienes todo el derecho a pasarla por alto.

but the one thing they'd taught him in the Academy that he already knew from his father was that a man only got as much respect as he gave himself.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly.

Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

I do not suffer fools

I decided not to call again. I didn't want to keep saying things that made me feel weak.

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

If I didn't fly, I wouldn't be killed or wounded or captured. I would be alive, but I would be in that netherworld of failures and cowards. I would be disgraced without family or friends or profession. It would be a lonely world, inhabited only by that loathsome individual looking back each morning from the mirror.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let this person be you.