Quotes About Self-respect

It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country music won't play my music, I'm not gonna go and record a party song or a truck song just to try to get spins. I have to be authentic to myself.

I was raised by my mom, pretty much, and she just had this very non-judgmental, having no shame about yourself, no regrets, just trusting your gut and your instinct, and treating yourself with respect.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Here's the question I would ask you to consider; do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this

I wouldn't want to be around anyone that would want me around.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.

Lucius, what do you fear? That we shall be tortured and killed? Every living thing must die, and there are things far worse than the suffering of physical pain. How much more terrible if we should comport ourselves disgracefully and lose our self-respect; then we should truly be damaged, and the harm would have been inflicted by ourselves.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

I realized it would be wise to leave immediately, before he tried to humiliate and confuse me further.