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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.

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

Quotes by Joan Didion

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

Quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin

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...

Quotes by Jeremy Irons

I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

Quotes by Jennifer Nettles

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

Quotes by James Payn

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Quotes by Harold Ramis

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.

Quotes by Gail Sheehy

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

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.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

Quotes by Eliot Sumner

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...

Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the...

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

Quotes by Donella Meadows

When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.

Quotes by Darryl Pinckney

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something...

Quotes by Danica McKellar

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

Quotes by Danica McKellar

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...

Quotes by Dale Turner

I never let anyone lose their self-respect and make them wait in my office, or hurt them with my words, thoughts or actions. I give my e-mail address to anyone who seeks me out. I ask them to send me...

Quotes by D. Imman

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?
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