Top 100 Self Respect Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power.
Auliq Ice
#3. People who feel superb about themselves generate superb results. Self-respect is a beautiful thing.
Robin S. Sharma
#4. Everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything.
Auliq Ice
#8. Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
B.C. Forbes
#9. Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#10. 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.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#11. A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
Otto Weininger
#12. Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#14. Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
Ayn Rand
#15. The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#16. A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
Ayn Rand
#17. I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#18. Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides
#20. Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
Thomas Szasz
#21. Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
Theodore Roosevelt
#22. Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#23. Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
#24. To undermine a person's self-respect is a sin. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Abbey Strauss
#25. The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.
Alice Miller
#26. The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.
Ralph Bunche
#27. Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
#28. Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
Samuel Smiles
#29. National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
Richard Rorty
#30. To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, Phenobarbital,
Helen Sword
#32. Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others.
Napoleon Hill
#34. Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
May Sarton
#35. To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
Kate O'Mara
#37. The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected by things that have gone in or out of my vagina the answer is no.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#38. The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
Maxwell Maltz
#39. When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.
Shunryu Suzuki
#40. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.
Frederick Lenz
#41. This is where any sensible person pulls together the remnants of their self-respect, announces that they deserve more, and walks off to find someone who can give them a whole self, not snatched lunchtimes and haunted, empty evenings.
Jojo Moyes
#42. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#43. The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Ferdinand Marcos
#44. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
Tae Yun Kim
#45. We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.
Donella Meadows
#46. Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#47. Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Victor Hugo
#48. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#49. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.
Candace Bushnell
#50. The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
Will Self
#52. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#53. If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
Matthew Arnold
#54. It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and to live out.
Steven Pressfield
#57. The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.
Auliq Ice
#58. Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences.
Maria Erving
#59. There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
Ronald Reagan
#60. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#61. Nothing is greater than or lesser than the self.
Rene Gaudette
#63. Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#64. There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.
Amit Ray
#65. The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words.
Auliq Ice
#66. To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.
Meg Cabot
#70. The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#72. Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.
David J. Lieberman
#74. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.
Otto Rank
#75. 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.
James Payn
#76. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
Thiruvalluvar
#77. There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.
Sandor Marai
#78. The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen
#79. Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
Toni Morrison
#80. I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.
Dalai Lama
#81. What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
#82. It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
Nathaniel Branden
#83. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death ... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
Ansel Adams
#85. Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
Cressida Cowell
#86. The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.
Alex Elle
#87. Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.
Maery Rubin
#88. Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs
don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.
Charity Shumway
#89. 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
#90. I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
#91. Don't ever feel bad that someone couldn't give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
#93. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.
Miya Yamanouchi
#94. Answering your calling inspires self-respect. It is not the accolades of others, but the choice to acknowledge yourself, choose yourself and answer your God-given calling that is the reward.
Shannon Tanner
#95. In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
Henry David Thoreau
#96. Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#97. From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.
Angela Carter
#98. When wealth occupies a higher position than wisdom, when notoriety is admired more than dignity, when success is more important than self-respect, the culture itself overvalues "image" and must be regarded as narcissistic.
Alexander Lowen
#99. If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.
Stevenson Willis
#100. No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.
Sweety Shinde
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