Self-respect Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

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

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.