Quotes About Self-respect

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Sure thing, just tell'em and let them decide on loving you back or not, it won't be none of your business and if you you ain't got no money be sure to let it all out, it ain't their business.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

NEVER HURT ANYONE YOU DON'T HAVE TO; NEVER TAKE ANY SHIT FROM ANYONE. WHEN YOU ARE READY TO DIE RATHER THAN BE PUSHED, PEOPLE WILL STOP PUSHING YOU. WHEN YOU'RE NOT AFRAID, NO ONE CAN HAVE A HOLD UPON YOU THAT YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WILLINGLY.

Epictetus: "Look not for any greater harm than this: destroying the trustworthy, self-respecting well-behaved man within you.

Violence, from the point of view of those who engage in it, does not intensify shame, it diminishes it and even reverses it into its opposite, namely, self-respect, and respect from others, which is why the most violent people boast for their violence rather than apologizing for it.

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." JOHN WAYNE in his last film, The Shootist (1976)

Self-respect --- I honor and love myself through my beautiful actions.

Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

I'm not ashamed of my personal life.

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

I don't usually lose it but if someone is trying to be too filthy or get physical, I am not going to take that. At the end of the day, I am a Punjabi!

I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I'm in the dirt or I'm picked up and dusted off.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.

I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you.

I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.