Quotes About Self-regard

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.

I've always been a narcissist.

Next time you hear that tone of self-regard, you might like to pick up Dispatches for the New York Tribune and read the only reporter of whom it was ever actually true.

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies

If I don't treat my own projects with respect, then how can I expect others to? If I don't treat myself with dignity, then how can I expect the people around me to treat me, or even one another, with dignity?

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

This sense of dignity.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit—it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

This intense desire to control is an attempt to maintain dignity in spite of low self-regard. Think about it. In addition to keeping everything safe, the exercise of power temporarily boosts angry men's low self-esteem. [...] Like many kings and other powerful people, however, angry men will soon doubt the affection of those they control. They will always wonder if they are "really" loved by family members, or if their family is just acting that way out of fear.

Submitting to others, rather than affirming our own reality, is the heart of active co-dependence-we give up our own inner world in order to be accepted by others. Such co-dependence amounts to self-betrayal. We give up ourselves in order to please, satisfy or impress others. By betraying our True Self, our sense of integrity and wholeness suffers. Our spirit wilts. Having healthy boundaries enable us to move from self-betrayal to self-affirmation, self-regard, and self-trust

Even in Minnesota, where the winter was a big topic of conversation and a permanent occasion for people's heroic self-regard, it was only winter on the highway a few hours out of the year. The rest of the time, traffic kept moving. Snow and rain were reduced to scenery nearly as much as any other kind of weather, something to look out the window at but nothing that hindered you. The

Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

In order to advance in this world, you need to have respect for yourself.

Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.

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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.