Quotes About Losing Self Respect

#1. To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh?

Jerry Spinelli

#2. I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't exactly make for sexual ecstasy! There's always been a difference between pleasure and scoring.

Michael Kimmel

#4. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Robbie Fowler

#6. Please don't forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

Bear Grylls

#8. Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.

Paulo Coelho

#9. The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

Thomas Holcomb

#10. The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.

Tom Robbins

#11. There are few things more confusing than going to war with parents who are diminishing you, particularly when you are very young. If you fight for your dignity, you risk losing the love you need from them to develop. If you don't fight back, you lose your self-respect

Jeff Brown

#12. The best way to let go is to notice the thoughts as they come up and to acknowledge them.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#13. God asks husbands to love their wives enough to die for them. He asks wives to love their husbands enough to live for them.

Betty S. Bender

#14. What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Hugh Jackman

#15. Aziz was that rare type of man a woman could love without losing her self-respect.

Elif Shafak

#16. Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.

Avijeet Das

#17. If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

Katie Uhlaender

#18. It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

Max Lucado

#19. When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

Alveda King

#20. This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

John Ralston Saul

#22. Waiting for the man she always dreamed of, she was left broken and disrespected. Losing her hope she sat only to see a man who regained her respect and will love her like no one else ever deserved.

Hi " I am 'Hardwork' " he introduced.

" I am all yours" 'Success' Blushed.

Ameya Agrawal

#23. During the past few years I have avoided tiring myself and losing my breath. I must take care of my body, treat it with respect as a musician does his instrument. I apply nonviolence to my body, for it is not merely a tool to accomplish something. It itself is the end.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative.

Neil Gaiman

#25. I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

Lou Diamond Phillips

#27. An educated woman knows how to make both men and women feel at ease in her presence without losing respect.

Daniel Whyte III

#28. The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

Maureen Dowd

#29. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Frederic Bastiat

#30. For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

Richard Dawkins

#32. His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

Hector Hugh Munro

#33. But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

Michael Swanwick

#34. Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Margaret Heffernan

#35. When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law - two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose. It

Frederic Bastiat