Quotes About Self-respect

When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.

Don't allow people into your energy field on a regular basis that you wouldn't want to be like yourself.

No body is worth more than your body

If you don't see your own value, don't expect others to as well.

Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.

If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.

Learn to value yourself enough to walk away from the crap in life and never settle for less than you deserve.

It is Pointless Trying to Impress Someone Who Doesn't Care about You

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try.

Loving yourself costs nothing, but not loving yourself could cost you everything.

If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you'll stay a 3rd class citizen.You're better than that.

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

We can't be afraid to dismiss the unappreciative.

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

when a man is borrowing merely to live, is a depressing experience, and the money lacks the power of earned money to revive his spirits. Of course, none of this applies to bums or habitual ne'er-do-wells, but only to men of normal ambitions and self-respect.

Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others.

The optimal solution to being independent and upright while remaining a social animal is: to seek first your own self-respect and, secondarily and conditionally, that of others, provided your external image does not conflict with your own self-respect. Most people get it backwards and seek the admiration of the collective and something called "a good reputation" at the expense of self-worth for, alas, the two are in frequent conflict under modernity.

dignity is worth nothing unless you earn it, unless you are willing to pay a price for it.

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self-assured and say, "It's easy for her to be self-assertive, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways we build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness calls on our courage.

If his or her upbringing is successful, the young man or woman will have evolved out of that dependency into a self-respecting and self-responsible human being who is able to respond to the challenges of life competently and enthusiastically.

When we behave in ways that conflict with our judgment of what is appropriate, we lose face in our own eyes.

Self-esteem is a particular way of experiencing the self. Its two components are self-efficacy and self-respect. Self-efficacy is the experience of competence in thinking, learning, making appropriate decisions, and responding effectively to the challenges of life. Self-respect is the experience of success, achievement, love, joy, fulfilment - in a word, happiness - are natural and appropriate to us.