Self Respect Quotes

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham J. Heschel

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H L Mencken

I understand the dignity of a life, but our right is much more dignified than life, our freedom, and our self-respect.

V.Prabhakaran

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Unknown

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself

Edgar Watson Howe

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Clark, Joe

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ìNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

Eric Hoffer

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Joan Didion

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

T H Huxley

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect.

Emma Goldman

Now I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams!!!

Kanye West

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