Quotes About Self-regard

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Respect yourself most of all.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly head, have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies. The habit fitted snugly into my well-established world of make-believe.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him

He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.

It seems to me to require a low self-regard to think that, should belief in God suddenly vanish from the world, we would all become callous and selfish hedonists, with no kindness, no charity, no generosity, nothing that would deserve the name of goodness.

Religion is the self-consciousness and self-regard of man who has either not yet found or has already lost himself

What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn't "improve.

that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn't "improve.

At a university where self-regard flows like mother's milk through the hallways, Gerschenkron was a mythic figure. He

He tries to read a novel, something about privileged people having trouble getting along with each other in exotic locations. He throws it against the wall. Something has broken in him. His appetite for human self-regard is dead.

His appetite for human self-regard is dead.

Something has broken in him. His appetite for human self-regard is dead.

American culture, aggressive self-regard is no longer viewed with alarm. Instead people praise and promote it."6

I am crippled in love relationships by fear, by defense, by doubt, by my own lack of self-regard. It makes me constantly want to abandon ship.

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.

Even the Chinese with their Belt and Road Initiative, and their local power in Asia, were not as bad as the Americans when it came to imperial self-regard pretending to be charity, as in the structural adjustment procedures at the end of the twentieth century

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.