Quotes About Self-respect

You go out and work hard and leave everything on the field. I think if you do that, you don't have any regrets. You can go home and look at yourself in the mirror.

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.

People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that.

I can't let myself down. I can't let my hood down, my area down.

I know what it's like to have guys make you feel like you need to flirt with them or be sexy or hook up with them or something, and you don't have to do those things. You just have to be strong and stand your ground.

It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, my life is horrible,' and 'I'm not pretty enough.' How do you know? There's this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.

People send me records, and if don't like them, I won't do them; I don't care how much money you offer.

I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me.

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

Self depreciating humour won't win over an employer; if you're not sure of yourself why should they be?

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them," Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket. Cherry. "Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

A veces sienta bien joder a alguien. En vez de que siempre lo jodan a uno

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you, my mother used to say whenever I resisted her grooming.

It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker.

But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent.

I was no longer on my dignity.

You already have one asshole, you don't need another one

You can't fix people or make them change; the only thing you can do is pack your shit and leave if it isn't working for you.

You already have one asshole. You don't need another.

The only reason people compromise themselves is because they don't feel strongly enough about themselves and are looking for another person to fix it for them, either sexually or emotionally. That's why it is imperative that you get to a place where you like yourself, even if just for the added bonus of weeding out the creeps.