Quotes About Self-respect

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

In spiritual issues--(by spiritual I mean: pertaining to man's consciousness)--a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for his weaknesses or flaws, only for his virtues, and who does not grant his love to the weaknesses or the flaws of others, only to their virtues.

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

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

A woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person." —QUINTILIAN

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

He felt that morale was "the most highly important of any military attribute." It could never be obtained through pampering the men or lowering the standards of discipline to permit easier living, but rather through self-respect, intensive training, and adequate leadership.

The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be at my expense, I joined in and accepted my star with as much pleased dignity as I could muster.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.

If you do not define yourself, your enemies will make sure they define you. Don't advertise what is not for sale..

When you understand what you're truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!

Life is not a popularity contest.

Till the time u dont value urslf, the world wont take a step ahead ! Thinking matters !

Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn't mean you have to join the circus.

If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

Nobody is gonna love you like you.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

You have self-respect. You have friends. You have satisfaction every day, of a job well done. You have agency over your own life. These are not small things.

This is where any sensible person pulls together the remnants of their self-respect, announces that they deserve more, and walks off to find someone who can give them a whole self, not snatched lunchtimes and haunted, empty evenings.