Quotes About Self-respect

Brian darling, I'm really not such an idiot that I don't realize that if a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it again.

I'm not a big fan of the WWE coming over into our sport and everyone making a show of themselves. It's not that, it doesn't bother me, its good for some guys, but that's just me, its not my personality, I told myself a long time ago I'm not gonna sell myself out, I'm not gonna sell my soul to be something I'm not.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?

I just want to raise a confident girl. I just want her to know that she doesn't need to be sending naked pictures and doing all that stuff - I'm definitely going to monitor everything. I want to raise her to know that she can go do whatever she wants in life and to be comfortable in her own skin, which I think also just comes with age and time.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well.

People assert themselves out of an unquenchable sense of dignity.

You respect yourself, it makes it harder for others to disrespect you.

Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Sometimes a person had to stand up and say enough was enough.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

unless you've got a thing for women with stratospheric IQ's and abysmal taste in men. It'd taken her a long time to recognize that she consistently chose males who didn't see her only their own reflection in her. Once she figured that out she started to regain a measure of her self respect..

I'd rather work with women just like myself for the rest of my natural life than submit to an asshole like you any day.

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

Perempuan jangan selalu merasa dirinya harus mengorbankan dirinya kepada laki-laki dengan gampang

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Get off my turf; you're stomping on my sense of self. Stop crossing into my backyard.

She said we'll let people abuse us as much as we're willing to abuse ourselves. But once they start treating us worse than we treat ourselves, then we know they have to go.

I am not a doormat. I get to decide what I will or won't do in this life, nobody else, and, no matter how cute Marley Hayes might be, he doesn't get to boss me around. (Lexie)

and no illustration of the disastrous effects of reckless indulgence in intoxicating liquors appeals to an audience with such telling force as that of the once sober and well-conducted female yielding by degrees to the terrible temptation until she at length sinks to the condition of a gin-soddened poor wretch, lost to every glimmer of self-respect, and capable even of starving herself and her children rather than forego her only remaining enjoyment in life ... It