527 Quotes About Self-respect

Respect individuality, including your own.

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

Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think—and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.