Quotes on Self Respect

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

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Look the world straight in the eye.

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.