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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

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

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

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

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

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


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