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Self-Respect Quotes

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These self-respect quotes start close to home, like a mother's tremendous pride in never accepting help from anyone, and extend into the courage to displease others by standing firm on your own convictions, real Status worth sharing.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will...

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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.

Quotes by William J. H. Boetcker

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

Quotes by Victor Mitchell

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

Quotes by Tracy McMillan

Age Quotes

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Quotes by Thomas S. Monson

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Quotes by Theodore Parker

I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the...

Quotes by Sonakshi Sinha

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.

Quotes by Richard Morris

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

Quotes by Rabbit Maranville

Best Quotes

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.

Quotes by Preston Brooks

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

My self-respect is very dear to me.

Quotes by Nawaz Sharif

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.

Quotes by Nawaz Sharif

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Quotes by May Sarton

Good Quotes

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if...

Quotes by Maria Montessori

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now...

Quotes by Lewis Thomas

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.

Quotes by Kurt Cobain

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Quotes by Joan Didion

Life Quotes

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

Quotes by Joan Didion

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the central theme of these self-respect quotes?
They explore dignity passed down through family, the courage to do what's right even if it upsets others, and the idea that self-worth has no price.
Is there a quote about a parent's influence on self-respect?
Yes, one speaker describes their mother's tremendous pride and refusal to accept help from anyone, as a lasting example of dignity.
Do these quotes talk about standing up to others?
One line argues it's better to upset people by doing what's genuinely right than to please them temporarily by doing something wrong.
Is there a quote connecting self-respect to romantic readiness?
Yes, one speaker suggests real readiness for love requires already having enough self-respect to fully accept and embrace who you are.
What other collection pairs with self-respect quotes?
Our Best collection offers more lines on personal standards and character worth reading alongside these.

One line insists real love starts with enough self-respect to be ready to fully embrace your own exact self, and another reminds us self-respect carries no price tag; browse our Best quotes for more.