Self-respect Quotes

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. (Marcus Aurelius)
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. View quote
Clint Eastwood
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. View quote
Joan Didion
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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 . View quote
Anne Brontë
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. View quote
John Herschel
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. View quote
Joan Didion
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. (Joan Didion)
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. View quote
Barry Gibb
It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect. View quote
Vonda N. McIntyre
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. View quote
Barry Bonds
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. View quote
Harold Ramis
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. View quote
William J. H. Boetcker
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack. (Ayn Rand)
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. View quote
Ambrose Bierce