Quotes About Self-respect

I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.

We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

To think I could be such a fool as to fall in love! It is quite beneath the dignity of a woman to do such a thing.

Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they're definitely knocking on the wrong door.

I'll show them that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday. They'll sit up and take notice and keep their big mouths shut when I make them see they ought to attend to their own manners instead of mine.

Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund.

Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life

Do not suffer your good nature . . . to say yes when you ought to say no

Edward Plantagenet is no man to hold cheaply. Far better to take him at his own inflated estimation!

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!

Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.

C'mon, Tally. Don't you want your clothes, your keys? Oh wait, how about some dignity? (Kyrian)

Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn't worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)

If you want nice, baby, play with your fucking dog. When you're ready to play with a man, then call me. (Zarek)

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.

Yet those who claim their liberty but not their duty to the civilization that ensures it, live a half-life, having indulged their self-interest at the cost of their self-respect…. Sacrifice for a cause greater than your self-interest, and you invest your lives with the eminence of that cause, your self-respect assured.

And although it hurts when people think less well of us than we deserve, our integrity, our self-respect, and our happiness do not ultimately depend upon the opinion of others. They depend upon our own conscience. We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.

Don't take nothing from nobody and don't give anyone reason to take advantage of you in the first place.