Quotes About Self-respect

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

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

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' – see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

I've always been a proud man.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an")

Your money does not define your standard, your personality does.