Quotes About Self-respect

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

I'm too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don't want to look desperate. You won't see me on 'Big Brother' or in the jungle.

I realize you can't please everyone.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.

I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.

I try to handle myself with class.

I try to handle myself with dignity.

Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

When I dont have work to talk about, I dont need to be in the headlines.

I can't just go out in a T-Shirt and say, 'Hey, today I'm not wearing a bra.'

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

I respect myself. I have very high expectations for myself.

I don't think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don't think too lowly of myself.

thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.

Second, the PLAN doth provide that I shall support and clothe my good wife who hath returned to me with loyalty from the house of her father. For Mathon doth say that to take good care of a faithful wife putteth self respect into the heart of a man and addeth strength and determination to his purposes.

Thus the seventh and last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself. Thereby shalt thou acquire confidence in thy self to achieve thy carefully considered desires.

If thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.