Quotes About Self-respect

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Average man is arrogant, because he is ever impressed by reason and always bows his head to it. Reason makes us believe that our challenges in life are to be avoided at all costs. This is to be a coward who does not have the self-respect needed in order to honour the marvellous gift of life.

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.

self-respect can encourage people to make the best of a bad job, but dependency on the state has destroyed the basis of self-respect.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

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!

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself.

Hayat?mda hiçbir zaman, insan biçimindeki herhangi bir yarat??a dokunmak ya da yaklaÅŸmakla kendini kirlenmiÅŸ sayacak bir insan olmad?m ben.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.

that night taught me one of life's most useful lessons, one of the only pieces of advice I have to offer to younger generations: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT!