Quotes About Self-respect

As long as you like yourself, as long as your family like you, as long as you are good at what you do, your staff respect you, and your board have trust in you, that's what is important.

Falling off stages or making out with gross guys isn't something I'm very fond of.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Learn that you can stand up for who you are, stand up for your heritage and be proud.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

You should always stand up for yourself.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.

It's inspiring to play a woman who stands up for herself.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.