527 Quotes About Self-respect

Nothing is greater than or lesser than the self.

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.

Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.

You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for.

If you respect yourself, you will respect others.

If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.