Self Respect Quotes

573 Self Respect quotes by 416 unique authors

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. — Thomas S. Monson
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by… — Michel de Montaigne
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. — Harold Ramis
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. — Jackie Robinson
Whatever good things we build end up building us. — Jim Rohn
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. — Eleanor Roosevelt
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. — Friedrich Schiller
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially… — Gail Sheehy
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. — Sonia Sotomayor
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. — Laurence Sterne
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and… — Lewis Thomas
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. — Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. — Walt Whitman
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
We accept the love we think we deserve. — Stephen Chbosky
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to… — Stephen Cosgrove
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an… — Charlotte Bronte

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