Quotes on Self Respect

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:_x000D_ _x000D_ Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.