Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Find your self-respect now. Don’t dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It’s so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.
Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.
When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition – before too much slavery and empire – that would not cost me my self-respect.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
The wish to lead out one’s lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one’s self-respect.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for one’s self-respect to be a punching bag.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
I’ve never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won’t pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That’s not me. I’ve always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won’t take assistance from anybody.
I’ve lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I’ve never lost my self-respect, and I’ve kept what I find in few men of my age – my enthusiasm.
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don’t think of faith in those terms at all.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
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.
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.
My self-respect is very dear to me.
So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they’re on offer to you, because you don’t have much self-respect left. You just can’t say no, even to something that you’ve never done before. You just can’t help yourself.
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa’s significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won’t end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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.
In conclusion, self-respect is a precious gift that you can give yourself. It is the foundation for a life filled with happiness, fulfillment, and healthy relationships. As you reflect on these quotes, may you be inspired to embrace and nurture your self-respect, prioritize your well-being, and set boundaries that honor your worth. Remember, you deserve to be treated with respect, love, and kindness, both by others and by yourself.
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