Sayings and Quotes

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

Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.

There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Self-respect can be a extension of your ego or a priceless virtue.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

You don’t know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time.

In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.