Quotes About Self-respect

she's not wrong. Men are like that. But we don't have to put up with it. Jessie, do you hear me? We do not have to put up with it.

value yourself the way I value you.

First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.

Ever since that evening when you gave me my hat, I've been as true to you as I've got it in me to be. Don't force me to where untruth starts. You say nothing would make you hate me. But once make me hate myself and you'd make me hate you.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

You don't need to live up to someone else's standards. If you live up to your own, you will do perfectly well.

Most people have opinions about how others should behave ... I just have high standards for who I intend to be no matter how they're behaving!

As for myself, I would just say that, because of what I am, I can at least look myself in the face when I stand before the mirror each morning to shave. And that, madam, is more than many men I know can do.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

Don't hurt your self-respect. Walk away and find real love.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

I'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

I realised no one else was going to care about me so I started to be nice to myself.

I don't gossip about myself.

You can't take me for granted!

I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.