Quotes About Self-respect

Any man who has to wear another man's name on the back of his shirt may need to ask himself how he views his own manhood.

I smell of decay, the acrid smell of a lonely person, a person with no respect or regard for themselves.

Women's lib does not mean imitating men's worst qualities just so we can lower ourselves and be equal to them.

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.

But of all our losses in recent years, the most distressing is the loss of our self-respect. How can we feel that our work here has any dignity or importance when the world places so low a value on the products of our toil?

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

We're in a very difficult position. We have to exercise the courage to give to ourselves the reverence that the people around us can't and won't be able to provide. This decision is frightening, because it feels like we're going against the common social reality and inventing our own—and this is indeed exactly what we're doing—because our common social reality is lacking and ailing.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

The man sitting alone so silent and strong So what if you're attracted for all the wrong reasons So what if your reasoning's wrong Call his indifference mystery Call his arrogance intellect All you've got to lose is your heart And a little self-respect. If you've got arrogance and indifference You can make them pay They're the most commercial product On the romantic market today.

I have lived to be above that sort of thing.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.

Do as they bid you...but in your heart, remember who and what you are.

Sólo un tonto se humilla a sí mismo, habiendo tantos hombres en el mundo dispuestos a encargarse de esa tarea

How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?

It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

To be a good soldier a man must have discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and in his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to his comrades and to his superiors, and self-confidence bom of demonstrated ability.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

No sensible person ever made an apology.