Quotes About Self-respect

So I got out my office bottle and took the drink and let my self-respect ride its own race.

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

But the real test of honor for a man is to live and learn to love himself.

Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.

Live to our highest right and we feel an easy-rolling lift of spirit. Sell ourselves for less and our skateboard's gone iron cobblestones.

No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.

The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.

He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home—even a pebbledash semi—being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity. - Lady Taylor

People who have been taught to despise themselves cannot easily respect others.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Beware the high cost of low living.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.