Quotes About Self-respect

If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. Take yourself seriously.

I earn my own respect, I told Emilie. I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Riches and rank have no necessary connection with genuine gentlemanly qualities. The poor man with rich spirit is in all ways superior to the rich man with a poor spirit. To borrow St. Paul's words, the former is as having nothing, yet possessing all things, while the other, though possessing all things has nothing. Only the poor in spirit are really poor. He who has lost all, but retains his courage, cheerfulness, hope, virtue, and self respect, is still rich.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man may clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

how we value and treat ourselves, not just on how we value or treat others.

True self esteem is not based upon how you think others see you; rather it is based upon the value you put on yourself as a human being.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

You walk around like a dog waiting to be kicked. And when someone does, you pout and cry like you didn't deserve it. No one deserves to be kicked. You do if you don't think you're worth any better.

You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.

But I think I have made myself clear. We are as ignorant of fundamentals as human beings ever were. Self-respect demands that we appear to be "with

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

Todo nos falta cuando nos faltamos a nosotros mismos.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

It's the social counterpart of natural selection. Those groups within society that craved power at the expense of everything else—morality, self-respect, honest friendship—they achieved dominance long ago. The mass of the public no longer has any contact with government; all they know is that if they step out of line they'll be trodden on.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

self respect. self reliance. self control.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Work is not just about economic reward. It is also about purpose and self-respect.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Do not pursuit such character and attitude that humiliate and degrade you in the eyes and hearts of the people.