Quotes on Self Respect

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

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.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.