Self Respect Quotes

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 be in the right when the world is against him.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

We have power over nothing except our will.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

I hate that you don't have the insight. I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out. I hate that you don't even seem to have the slightest self-respect. And also the fact that you used San as your "heart-wrenching" excuse to return. Back to this hell-hole.

The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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 yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself. He takes on the roles and masks of individual people such as you and I and thus becomes involved in exciting and terrifying adventures, all the time forgetting who he really is.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

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 responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices-to choose the higher roads of life

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.