Self Respect Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
Self- respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
- Axel Munthe
Don’t ever dumb yourself down just to make someone else feel comfortable.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- Proverb
We are all something, but none of us are everything.
- Blaise Pascal
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
They cannot take away our self- respect if we do not give it to them.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Carry yourself like a Queen and you’ll get your King. Carry yourself as a hoe and we’ll see how far you go.
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Know your worth. Know when you have had enough. And move on from the people who keep chipping away at your happiness.
Self- respect permeates every aspect of your life.
- Joe Clark
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- Ralph Ellison
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self- respect.
- Thomas Huxley
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
In my day, we didn’t have self- esteem, we had self- respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
- Jane Haddam
Never make your self feel like nothing, to make someone else feel like everything.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self- respect.
- Theodore Parker
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
- Peter McArthur