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Quotes About Self Respect

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. – Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel

Not respecting yourself is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate. – Unknown

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. – Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass

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

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own. – Eric Hoffer

In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. – Jane Haddam

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. – Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think. – Meredtith Jordan

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius

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

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. – Whitney Griswold

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? – Jane Nelson

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. – Max Nordau

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. – Mark Twain

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. – Theodore Parker

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

Until you make peace with you you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. – Doris Mortman


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