Quotes About Self-respect

And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.

Une femme libre est exactement le contraire d'une femme légère

Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai

We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.

I think you need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.

Linus might come over. He might not. Either way is fine. Either way, his decision is about himself, not about you. You are not responsible for his feelings.

It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that'.

I also know that standing up for yourself can be hard. But you have to do it. Sam Roxton

You need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.

There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.

Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

Never Beg SOMEONE to be in your life, You just have to believe that, You're worth more than you think

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.

Know your value, accept nothing but the best.

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

Honoring what you deserve is the beginning of living.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from the." The shootist.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." - J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." ~John Bernard Books