Self-Respect Quotes

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Kurt Cobain

Time, Good, Everything

Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Power, Respect, Yourself

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner

Character, Mistakes, Mistake

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Number, Clean, Shirts

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

Difficult, Loses, Occupied

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

Integrity, Individual, Test

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker

May, Wrong, Please

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 think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human, Him, Eyes

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken

Feeling, Secure, Suspicious

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, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica McKellar

Respect, Smart, Yourself

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sense, Discipline, Ability

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

Life, Accept, Source

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 good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
Danica McKellar

Good, School, Hard

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

Peace, Happiness, Great

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

Great, Power, Give

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis

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.
Gail Sheehy

Good, Successful, Understand

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
Bruno Bettelheim

Best, May, Teach

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

Respect, Society, Others

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 later on.
Danica McKellar

End, Regret, Situation

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer

Pride, Substitute, Variants

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 means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan

Life, Love, Respect

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker

Individual, Sacredness, Violate

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Food, Hatred, Rather

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver

Great, Wrong, Honor

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion

Worth, Question, Price

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

Good, Punch, Bag

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
Anne Bronte

Power, Girl, Lost

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen

Feeling, Wish, Loved

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