Top 100 Respecting Self Quotes
#1. No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.
Terry Goodkind
#2. Why any self-respecting fairy godmother would pass them over for an inane twit who relied on animals to do her housecleaning was beyond her.
Marie Hall
#3. I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.
Beth Kendrick
#4. He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be.
P.G. Wodehouse
#5. Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.
Flora Thompson
#6. No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.
Erma Bombeck
#7. No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
David Copperfield
#8. You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would prepare you for, and I just knew that segregation was wrong, and I knew that I should not be going along with it. That I should resist it.
Diane Nash
#9. You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.
Ram Kapoor
#10. Duke Leszek the White explained in a long letter to the Pope that neither he nor any self-respecting Polish knight could be induced to go to the Holy Land, where, they had been informed, there was no wine, mead, or even beer to be had.
Adam Zamoyski
#11. Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.
Vishwas Chavan
#12. Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald Trump for president.
Martin O'Malley
#13. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.
Miya Yamanouchi
#14. Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
Henry Ward Beecher
#15. Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.
Dean Koontz
#16. Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#17. When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
Bertrand Russell
#18. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.
Miranda J. Barrett
#20. Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.
Tisha Marie Payton, MHR
#21. If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.
Katherine Kurtz
#23. What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,
and that is not only true, but identical,
that men always act from self-interest.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#24. No self-respecting zombie would be caught dead smoking.
Diana Rowland
#25. No self-respecting God would allow a good man to be happy for long. God has relevance only in the unhappiness of good people.
Anand Neelakantan
#26. You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.
Mandy Hale
#27. My stroller of choice is the Graco Classic. It's the '70s Buick of strollers, bulky with a complete absence of style. There are no good lines on the Graco. Yes, it has cup holders, like any self-respecting car or stroller does these days, but the luxuries stop there.
Shawn Amos
#28. A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime ...
Emile M. Cioran
#29. Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.
Thomas Szasz
#30. The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
Cornel West
#31. As he slid a bit closer, I caught a whiff of his cologne. Smelling like chocolate, the scent was bait to any self-respecting woman.
Bijou Hunter
#32. As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.
Katie Ashley
#33. We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#34. Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.
Monica Johnson
#35. Her hair was a tangle. Her filthy clothes would make any self-respecting debutante shriek in horror. Dirt streaked her piquant face. And still he thought she was utterly irresistible. He was in a bad way indeed. Several
Anna Campbell
#36. I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
Barney Frank
#37. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#38. First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
George Bernard Shaw
#39. When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness.
Vishwas Chavan
#40. Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#41. When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work.
Sarojini Naidu
#42. no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact.
Ernest Cline
#43. In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow.
P.G. Wodehouse
#45. The question deserves to be asked: Is hating one's nation really such a bad thing? Or perhaps more importantly, after the crimes our government has committed, what moral self-respecting person can truly love this nation?
Michel Templet
#46. They warn us when we're kids that we're going to have to suffer, but they neglect to mention the indignity. What self-respecting fetus, if shown its future as a proctology patient, boot-camp recruit, or game show contestant, would still elect to be born?
Tom Robbins
#47. If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood - but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum ...
John Geddes
#48. What's a self-respecting amusement park without a ghost?
Stephen King
#49. 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
#50. If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.
K.D. Harp
#51. 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
#52. Love wasn't selfless, and it wasn't selfish either. Love was equality. It was saying that another person's self was just as important as yours, and expecting them to feel the same way.
Rose Lerner
#53. There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Hit.
Panic.
Flail.
Freeze.
Ally Carter
#55. Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.
Will C. Barnes
#56. Self-love is about respecting and appreciating every single part of who you are, and being proud to be you.
Miya Yamanouchi
#57. I would love to be loved for what I am, and not for what I have!
Nehali Lalwani
#58. Who's that?" Yngve said, nodding discreetly in the direction of a woman. She wore a hat with a veil that concealed her face. "No idea," I said. "But all self-respecting funerals have a woman no one recognizes." We laughed. "Well, the danger's over now," Yngve said, and we both laughed again.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove
#59. I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being.
William Styron
#60. The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
Shannon L. Alder
#61. No self-respecting person who loves humanity
or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice
should have anything to do with whitewashing the
slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
Anthony Gregory
#62. The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words.
Auliq Ice
#63. In silence you shall face self ... and have respect.
T.F. Hodge
#64. We have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!
Frances Wright
#65. No self-respecting cat wants to have its subtle personal odor masked by overtones of lavender or rose petals.
Nicholas Dodman
#66. A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#67. [Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
Jan Morris
#68. How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?
Gloria Steinem
#69. I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
Nathaniel Branden
#70. No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
Godfrey Bloom
#71. When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.
Lynn Coady
#72. A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#73. No self-respecting criminal mastermind would be caught dead even using the word lollipops. He really would have to put together a database of witty responses for occasions such as this. It
Eoin Colfer
#74. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
#75. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Susan B. Anthony
#76. It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#78. As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary gate-crashing of mine must be a sign of a wretched thirsting after immortality.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#79. It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that's drunk.
Krista Ritchie
#80. Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.
Werley Nortreus
#81. What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?
Jude Deveraux
#82. Well, guess what, I'm Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.
Ted Cruz
#83. Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
Louis Zamperini
#85. No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.
Ray Kroc
#88. Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.
Simphiwe Dana
#89. I gave a silent prayer of thanks that I didn't seem to be lousy. I had probably been too filthy for any self-respecting louse to take up residence.
Patrick Rothfuss
#90. Any self-respecting rake had two kinds of women in his life: those he took to bed at night and those who made him a pancake in the morning. If he suddenly wanted both from the same woman, it was a warning flag. One big and red enough for even a blind man to see.
Tessa Dare
#91. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.
Mandy Hale
#92. From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
Dean Koontz
#93. Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
Kevin Plank
#94. I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
Derek Bok
#95. Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.
David Morrell
#96. In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.
Jeffrey Deitch
#97. No self-respecting snoop sneaks in before midnight anyway.
Lindsay Buroker
#98. The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.
Harry Papas
#100. Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
H.L. Mencken
