Self Respect Quotes

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

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

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

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

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry... He really doesn't care what others do around him... but if you do hurt His PRIDE... He wont let you live another Day

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?

People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.