Quotes About Self-respect

Because I'm worth it!

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!

There may be dust in my house but there isn't any on me.

Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals.

Never forget to respect yourself for being yourself

One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.

You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul. - The Orange Catholic Bible

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

You are never to let anybody slam the door in your face again.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important. This car is fine for me. It gets me around. I know who I am and what I am, and that's what counts, not what other people might think of me.

When another woman steals your man the best revenge is to let her keep him

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

The one thing I say, I will invest in anything - I don't care what it is - as long as it doesn't cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.

We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.

If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect and it's these things I'd believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all that she should be. . . . I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD