Quotes About Self-respect

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

But seriously, Gracie. You can't let people walk all over you. They're just people. What right do they have?

He's entitled not to love me, but he's not entitled to mess with my happy place.

Even if I were trying to catch a husband I would never fish in shallow waters.

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft Ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!

I'm tired of being your scratching post," he growled. "From now on, sharpen your claws on someone else." - Bumblestripe

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Not if he wanted to be able to look at himself in the mirror in the morning without seeing the word asshole written across his forehead.

You don't actually know enough about me to insult me properly.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Office is something that builds up a man only if he is somebody in his own right.

The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.

I encountered producers who wanted to hang out after we worked, and when I refused, they wouldn't let me come back and work again... I would've have way more opportunities if I had succumbed. But it never felt right. I always felt like I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to compromise my morals.

I am who I am. I'm not living for anyone else, I'm doing things for me. Regardless of what I do, someone's going to have an opinion about something. And that goes for... no matter who you are.

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.