Self Respect Quotes

573 Self Respect quotes by 416 unique authors

Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We… — Richard G. Scott
An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but… — Henry David Thoreau
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking.… — Maxwell Maltz
Hard work breeds self-respect. — Pat Summitt
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. — Henry David Thoreau
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans… — George S. Patton
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to… — Karen Horney
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… — Bertrand Russell
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness… — Cesar Chavez
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt… — Henry A. Kissinger
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would… — Christopher Hitchens
We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much… — Norm MacDonald
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. — Norm MacDonald
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and… — Baltasar Gracian
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you… — William Faulkner
For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and… — Henry David Thoreau
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising… — Russell Lynes

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