Self Respect Quotes

“Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.”

“Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.”

“When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.”

“How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.”

“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”

“There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“People treat us the way we teach them to treat us.”

“One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.”

“Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.”

“When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.”

“I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.”

“Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.”

“I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.”

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

“One insult pocketed soon produces another.”

“Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.”

“We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.”

“Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.”

“But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.”

“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.”

“When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.”

“An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.”

“I cannot be subservient anywhere.”

“I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'”