Top Self-Respect Quotes
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
Anne Bronte
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.
Bruno Bettelheim
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.
Brian Molko
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
May Sarton 
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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.
Gail Sheehy
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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.
Jeremy Irons
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis
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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.
Richard Morris
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
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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.
Eldridge Cleaver
49% of people like this quote
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Ralph Waldo EmersonGeorge Bernard ShawMohandas GandhiH. L. MenckenEric HofferThomas HuxleyAntoine de Saint-ExuperyPercy Bysshe ShelleyBarry GibbElizabeth BowenHarold RamisJeremy IronsRichard MorrisKurt CobainThomas S. Monson
James PaynBarry BondsJune JordanMay SartonJimmy ChamberlinClint EastwoodGail SheehyJoan DidionBrian MolkoAbraham Joshua HeschelTheodore ParkerEldridge CleaverWilliam J. H. BoetckerAnne BrontePreston Brooks
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