Respect Oneself Quotes

#1. If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Ayn Rand

#2. Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

Liza M. Wiemer

#4. I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Fernando Pessoa

#5. As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

Peter Jackson

#6. I always wanted a parabatai" she said a little wistfully. "Someone who is sworn to protect you and to watch your back. A best friend forever, for your whole life.

Cassandra Clare

#7. A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be

Patty Smith

#8. While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for.

Ogwo David Emenike

#9. The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... Mystery at Geneva

Rose Macaulay

#10. Do you remember? Do you remember being solid? Do you remember life before the hole? Before you were empty and needed to be filled? There was a time when everything was enough. There was a time you didn't try to get out of your own skin. Remember?

Amy Reed

#11. To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Isaac D'Israeli

#12. Dogger had once warned me to be wary of any man who introduced himself as 'Mr.' It was an honorific, he said, a mark of respect to be bestowed by others, but never, ever, under any circumstances, upon oneself.

Alan Bradley

#13. Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#14. I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you ...

Rainbow Rowell

#15. One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Emile Chartier

#16. In order to love others, we have to love ourselves deeply enough, to be able to forgive ourselves and become responsible, with self respect and dignity. This self love is Divine Love, for oneself and for all.

Gian Kumar

#17. After all, everyone may not start with the same financial opportunities; however everyone does start with the choice to live their life with integrity, trust, love, respect,understanding for each other and oneself.

Tasha Hoggatt

#18. Meekness is essentially a true view of oneself, expressing itself in attitude and conduct with respect to others. It is therefore two things. It is my attitude towards myself, and it is an expression of that in my relationship to others.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#19. The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it's coming to an end. Once you accept there's nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you're now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.

Jeb Corliss

#20. I value other traits above an affinity for torture and power over those weaker than oneself. I value brilliant minds, honest souls, and those with long endurance. I forge relationships based on trust and mutual respect, not fear and control.

Tricia Levenseller

#21. No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Mark Victor Hansen

#22. 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

#23. You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you.

Claire Legrand

#24. Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

Richard Attias

#25. 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.

Ayn Rand

#26. There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Mann

#27. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#28. The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ...

Rose Macaulay

#29. Sensual pleasures are, or should be, the culmination of physical desires combined with an intellectual and emotional decision, a giving of oneself, body and spirit, in a bond of trust and respect.

R.A. Salvatore

#30. Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By which way the wind hath blown?

Adelaide Crapsey

#31. He's not a dark knight, but a white knight in shining, dazzling armor - Anastasia Steele

E.L. James

#32. Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#33. Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God ... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Robert Baden-Powell

#34. Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for well-being.

Maria Canals Barrera

#35. Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.

Erich Fromm

#37. We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.

Ashley Olsen

#38. But it is my believed that one gets back what he puts out. The only way to truly earn regard is to conduct oneself with the utmost honor and respect.

Rachel Harris