Self Respect Quotes

573 Self Respect quotes by 416 unique authors

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that… — Don Coppersmith
Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic… — Ernie J Zelinski
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… — Emile Chartier
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and… — Eric Hoffer
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. — Eric Hoffer
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. — Mark Twain
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching… — Edgar Wilson Nye
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of… — Otto Rank
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble… — B R Ambedkar
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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national… — Theodore Roosevelt
Self respect is impossible without liberty.... — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance. — Ann Landers
Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end,… — Tad R. Callister
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… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… — Madame de Stael
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. — Sigmund Freud
Self-respect knows no considerations. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. — John W. Gardner
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. — Baltasar Gracian
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. — Joan Didion
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. — Joan Didion

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