Quotes About Self-respect

You have to know what you're worth and you have to stick with that because you're only going to hurt yourself in the end if you bring your price point way down, as well as impact others in the market.

What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

you can apologize, but don't ever be sorry!

My contention is that for education to proceed children must have learned to fear something before they come to school. If it is not the once crippling fear of damnation and the woodshed, then in our more enlightened days it is at least the fear of losing parental love (or later, by proxy, the teacher's) and eventually the fear of losing self-respect.

Careful, young woman. Smart-mouthed females are prized here.

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

I feel like I let people know I'm not a toy.

I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.

I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.

A dreamgirl, on the other hand, won't kill herself to impress anyone.

A bitch is more selective about her availability. She's available sometimes; other times she's not. But she's nice.

If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.

If you appear weak, people take advantage of you.

A girlfriend went on a couple of dates with a guy who criticized the color of her nail polish. She said, "The suggestion department is closed for the evening, but fax your idea tomorrow and we'll file it right over there in the suggestion box." (Then she pointed to the kitchen trash.)

A woman who is comfortable in her own skin and cannot be made to feel bad about herself.