Quotes About Self-respect

Religions talk about sin and sinners, but let's understand what it really means to sin. A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

Nos deshonramos a nosotros mismos sólo para complacer a otras personas. Incluso llegamos a dañar nuestro cuerpo para que los demás nos acepten.

Al volver a respetar su propia humanidad y la ajena, empieza a darse cuenta del poder de su voluntad.

Ser impecable es no ir contra ti mismo. Cuando eres impecable, asumes la responsabilidad de tus actos, pero sin juzgarte ni culparte.

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

I'd rather die liking myself than hating myself.

How many times do you let someone hurt you in the same way, she asked him, before you become the asshole who keeps allowing it?

to men, the protectors of the kingdom in a time of war. The discipline required to master it provides one of the pathways for men to find inner peace, strength of character, and self-respect. It cannot be practiced by a woman. Doing so would only lead her down a path that is not compatible with her true nature and place in the spiritual world. You do not need kung fu to find your place in the world.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem: • The more you practice self-mastery and self-control, the more you like and value yourself; • The more you discipline yourself, the greater is your sense of self-respect and personal pride; • The more you practice self-discipline, the better is your self-image. You see yourself and think about yourself in a more positive way. You feel happier and more powerful as a person.

When you complain you actually weaken yourself. You generate feelings in yourself of inferiority and inadequacy. You feel angry and resentful. You feel negative and unsure. Your level of self-confidence and self-respect actually declines as you complain about anything to someone else. You hurt yourself by complaining much more than you hurt the target of the complaints, who you may not affect at all.

Every no I say is a yes to myself. It feels right to me. People don't have to guess what I want or don't want, and I don't need to pretend. When you're honest about your yeses and noes, it's easy to live a kind life. People come and go in my life when I tell the truth, and they would come and go if I didn't tell the truth. I have nothing to gain one way, and everything to gain the other way. I don't leave myself guessing or guilty.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. "Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.

If they ask me to do something like 'Emotional Atyachar,' I am not doing that. I have a daughter at home, not that she will judge me but there are certain things, which I feel I don't fit in at all.

It's very important to say no to stuff you don't like because then you won't be able to do justice to it.

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.