Quotes About Self-respect

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.

Finding within yourself a sense of value that does not depend on your achievements will make you more resistant to crippling self-doubts.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

Per ogni uomo c'è un'area della vita compresa nel perimetro sacrosanto dei cazzi suoi.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid-a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same of them.

Everybody has laws he lives by, I expect. I have mine as well." "What laws?" Bond Rogers was dismayed. Yet she waited, evidently as curious as her son. "I will not be laid a hand on. I will not be wronged. I will not stand for an insult. I don't do these things to others. I require the same from them.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it

How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

I began to understand that self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

self esteem isn't everything. it's just that there's nothing without it

You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

They are not even thinking of themselves, they are thinking of falsity. Because people who love themselves choose the truth.

We can be absolved for falling for what we found in place but not for failing to rise up for what we deserve.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Self-CONFIDENCE grows out of self-RESPECT. Make every choice with respect for your BODY, your MIND and your SOUL.

When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Be proud to wear you.

You are as important to your health as it is to you.