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
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
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
Preston Brooks 
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
Eldridge Cleaver 
Thomas Huxley 
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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.
Preston Brooks 
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Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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.
Preston Brooks
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You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
Jimmy Chamberlin
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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Popular Self-Respect Authors
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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