Quotes About Self-respect

The five cardinal virtues of the Chinese are (1) humanity or benevolence; (2) uprightness of mind; (3) self-respect, self- control, or proper feeling; (4) wisdom; (5) sincerity or good faith.

I take a stand for what I believe in. I don't let fear run my life. I confront people who have injured me. I define who I am rather then being defined by other people. I keep the promises I make to myself. I protect my physical and emotional health. I don't betray other people. I tell the truth.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

I feel profoundly alone, cut off, unattractive…I feel unloveable. But I respect that unloveable solider—struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honourable. I respect myself.

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt.

she would never find happiness in trying to please others if she didn't honor her own gifts.

repression, which "proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his actual ego [self]…. For the ego the formation of an ideal would be the conditioning factor of repression" (1914c, pp. 93-94).

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Still, some might say it was her duty to endure it. But she could not sacrifice self-respect on the altar of convention. That's rather a good phrase, isn't it? I must have read it somewhere.

yourself in such a manner?

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

I won't offer you a penny for your thoughts, since I know they can't possibly be worth that much, but what are you thinking about?

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

I am a firm believer that the only person who can make you feel inferior is yourself.

I don't have an inferiority complex.

No amount of gym time will make you feel beautiful if you don't feel it on the inside.

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact.

I fight if I need to, I dance if I need to, yet I won't compromise my integrity and pride.

It's not always easy to take the high road when you are hurting, but in the long run at least you still have your integrity and dignity.