Quotes About Self-respect

Keep your promises to yourself.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

I am not worthy. he said softly. Damn fucking straight, someone growled.

Looking at herself in the mirror. And for the first time in her life, she respected what she saw. Bowing to her reflection, she said softly, "Pleased to meet you.

Yet she was still alive and she was here. Looking at herself in the mirror. And for the first time in her life, she respected what she saw. Bowing to her reflection, she said softly, "Pleased to meet you.

She was so much more, so much better than a stolen orgasm or two with a man that she should be handling with BBQ tongs and a fire extinguisher.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

There's a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, 'Why get into that in the first place?' If I jump into a garbage bin, I can't complain that I've got rubbish all over me.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

To the man who has begun to hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of a nation. Our

If you treat someone under your control like a dolt, he will react like a dolt; treat him like an animal, and he will respond like an animal; treat him as an object of contempt, and he will become filled with a self-contempt that must sooner or later erupt in rage, hate and violence.