Quotes About Self-respect

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.

go for what you want if it doesn't want you back, so be it, it doesn't deserve you

She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.

Shut up. You Matter. That's it.

Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.

I don't give a damn what they say about me, but nobody's going to talk behind their hands about you. Where the hell did you get that skirt? he exploded. Tarts U Us?

when you mess up, you have to face up to it, make it right. Then people respect you, and even more, you can, you know, respect yourself." She felt a twinge in her gut as she dumped chocolate powder in a mug. "Man," she muttered. "Everybody makes mistakes, but cowards hide from them.

If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her.

Ninguém a levaria a sério, a não ser que ela mesma se levasse a sério.

Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.

You probably don't want to date a rapist, not right off. Nobody's that desperate.

There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.

The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.

must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

This sense of dignity.

If the man in the concentration camp did not struggle against this in a last effort to save his self-respect, he lost the feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom and personal value. He thought of himself then as only a part of an enormous mass of people; his existence descended to the level of animal life.

Don't let anyone—no matter how important, famous, or powerful—make you feel ashamed about standing up for your boundaries.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door; for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect—something, after all, priceless.

And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door; for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect—something, after all, priceless.

I won't be target practice in whatever little pissing contest you've got going on with him

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.