Self Respecting Quotes
35 quotes by 30 authors
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.
— Erma Bombeck
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will…
— Eric Hoffer
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing...…
— Martha Van Rensselaer
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A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
— Emile M. Cioran
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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a…
— Barney Frank
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No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
— Susan B. Anthony
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A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.
— Vaclav Havel
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When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are…
— Sarojini Naidu
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No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
— Godfrey Bloom
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My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.
— Simphiwe Dana
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No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
— David Copperfield
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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for…
— Derek Bok
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Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.
— Nathaniel Branden
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In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television…
— Jeffrey Deitch
Who Wrote These Self Respecting Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 35 Self Respecting Quotes, led by these top contributors: