Self Respect Quotes

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

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

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

I am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves.

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Flatter yourself critically.

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

I wish that I was where I am.

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

Self-respect is the best of all.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.