Self-respect Quotes

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

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

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

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

Self-respect knows no considerations.

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.