Quotes About Self-respect

Mrs. Watson pressed the heavy coin into Charlotte's palm and closed her fingers around it. "Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

You know,just because you can deal with bullshit on your own doesn't mean you should." - Derek Fitzpatrick

La dignità si deve mantenere, sempre, ma l'orgoglio porta male.

Amai tua madre assai, ma lei non fu mai il mio grande amore,il più importante. Quello non mi abbandona ancora e alleggerisce il peso degli anni. Quando avverrà sarà il momento di morire......L'amore per se stessi. Il rispetto per se stessi. Tu devi amarti. Piacerti. Soltanto allora gli altri ti ameranno. A casa tua l'ospite migliore sei tu, prima di tutti gli altri. Quelli vengono dopo.

Il principale fondamento della moralità dell'individuo e di un popolo e la stima costante e profonda che esso ha di sé e la cura che ha a conservarsela, la sensibilità sul proprio onore. Un uomo senza amor proprio non può essere giusto, onesto e virtuoso.

This horse is good for him. Good for his self-respect. You can't ride a horse and feel altogether worthless, or be altogether convinced that society's little world is the last world.

What does not show respect to the inner-man, must not be done.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.

Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

Fine. You don't want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

If we lose love and self respect for each other,this is how we finally die

I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

We must re-create an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. If we persist in self-disrespect and then ask our children to respect themselves, it is as if we break all their bones and then insist that they win Olympic gold medals for the hundred-yard dash. Outrageous.

If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you.

I ordered myself to be kind.

When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

If you ever wake up and see the light and decide you want me back? You're going to have to crawl.