Self Respect Quotes

Most popular self-respect quotes

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. - Mark Twain quote.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight. - Maya Angelou quote.
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

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

self-esteem discipline self-control

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

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel quote.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

saying no discipline dignity

Most of the excellence we see in the world is the product not of talent or genius but of self-respect. - Robert Breault quote.
Most of the excellence we see in the world is the product not of talent or genius but of self-respect.

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The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule. - Gloria Steinem quote.
The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

golden rules

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky quote.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.
To free ourselves from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. - Joan Didion quote.
To free ourselves from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way. - Nikki Giovanni quote.
Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
He that respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote.
He that respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others.
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body.  Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect, and you kill his spirit. - Thomas Szasz quote.
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body.  Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect, and you kill his spirit.
Respect yourself and others will respect you. - Confucius quote.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.