Self Respect Quotes

573 Self Respect quotes by 416 unique authors

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. — Joan Didion
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur… — Frederick Douglass
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. — Clint Eastwood
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. — Marian Wright Edelman
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. — Eric Hoffer
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. — Eric Hoffer
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. — Elbert Hubbard
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley
Stay hungry, stay foolish. — Steve Jobs
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it… — June Jordan
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. — Ed Koch
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. — Harvey Mackay
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still… — Orison Swett Marden
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you,… — Danica McKellar
I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were… — Danica McKellar
When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret… — Danica McKellar
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. — H. L. Mencken
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. — Michelangelo
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not… — John Stuart Mill
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. — John Milton

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