Self-Respect Quotes

187 quotes by 145 authors

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
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. — Joan Didion
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
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. — Eric Hoffer
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. — E. W. Howe
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley
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
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
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 never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. — Harold Ramis
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
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw

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