Self Respect Quotes

573 Self Respect quotes by 416 unique authors

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. — Thomas Paine
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you… — Jerry Spinelli
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake… — Ayn Rand
Men are respectable only as they respect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. — Sarah Addison Allen
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… — Joan Didion
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. — Taylor Swift
You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to… — Queen Latifah
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can… — Alberto Moravia
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… — Joan Didion
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can… — Steig Larsson
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at… — Stephen King
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack — Ayn Rand
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness! — Kurt Vonnegut
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you… — Kiran Desai
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but… — Patricia Highsmith
If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work… — Marvin J. Ashton
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. — Gerard Way
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… — Alice Miller
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had… — Karl Marlantes
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… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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