Quotes About Self-respect

Just because turtles dwell at your feet doesn't mean you should come down from your height and barter with, debate, or eat alongside them.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

You can't force someone to respect you. But you can refuse to be disrespected.

Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

I'm not putting any deadlines on myself," Mart says with dignity, setting a heaped plate in front of Cal. "Not to suit you or anyone else. Now: get your laughing-tackle round that.

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty, not the way you avoid it.

I shook my head. Roy wasn't that type of man, although he had dignity in spades. But for a person like Roy, letting go wasn't a self-respecting option.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs 15:32).

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs

I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

She's not a shy person. Her body language is eloquent enough: "I am aware that men are in the habit of looking at whatever women happen to be nearby, in the hopes of deriving enjoyment from their physical beauty, their hair, makeup, fragrance, and clothing. I will ignore this, politely and patiently, until you get over it.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?