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
H. L. Mencken 
Anne Bronte 
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
Brian Molko 
John Herschel 
Abraham Joshua Heschel All Self-Respect Quotes
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker 
44% of people like this quote
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry Gibb
42% of people like this quote
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken
42% of people like this quote
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
42% of people like this quote
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner
40% of people like this quote
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley
33% of people like this quote
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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