Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!

Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Definition of Self-Respect
Self-respect

Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.

Related Definitions:
Character, For, Laudable, One, Regard, Respect, Self, Self-Esteem


Self-Respect Quotations

Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mohandas Gandhi

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Quotes   Bookmark and Share     Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com