Self Respect Quotes

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears to the world around him rather than cultivating a person inside him that he knows is honorable and that he can be proud of. When all the focus is on what people think about you based upon your facebook profile or based upon the exterior that you put on everyday; you leave no room for looking at yourself and saying, I want to look into the mirror every day and see someone that I can be proud of. And that's what a life of honor is based upon. It is based upon the knowledge that you know your own actions, your own self, and you can see the things that you do and know the things that you think. You answer to yourself, therefore, your standards need to come up to what you expect of yourself. It doesn't matter at all if anybody is looking. When such a sense of honor is present in a large group of people, that's when we see no crime rate or a very low crime rate, respect for other human life and personas, respect for the surroundings and really a respect for oneself. Because a respect for other people can only first be born from a true respect for oneself.

~ C. Joybell C.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

~ Amit Kalantri

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.

~ Amit Kalantri

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

~ Amit Kalantri

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. When you harass or vilify someone, you not only disrespect them, but yourself also.Street harassment, sexual violence, sexual harassment, gender-based violence and racism, are all acts committed by a person who in fact has no self respect. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

At every turn, girls - even the most carefully raised and deeply loved - are surrounded by a popular culture that exhorts them to think of themselves as sexually disposable creatures.

~ Caitlin Flanagan

The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain while maintaining a strong sense of self-respect. I obeyed his commands, sure that I could fulfill this role while still protecting the sacred place inside of me that I knew deserved more. Different. Better.But that isn't how it works.

~ Lena Dunham

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

Find my wrongdoings and blame it on me,Willingly I will accept the fact.I will not change as per your perspective,but will surely not hurt you,While I am being myself.

~ Bikash Chaurasiya

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

~ Unarine Ramaru

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

~ Nathaniel Branden

If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.

~ Melody Carstairs

Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won't allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek penance is humankind’s unique act of salvation. Whenever a person fails, it is often their overwhelming sense of anguish that drives them forward to make a second attempt that is far more bighearted than they originally envisioned. The need for redemption drives us to try again despite our backside enduring the terrible weight of our greatest catastrophes. There is no person as magnanimous as a person whom finally encountered tremendous success after previously enduring a tear-filled trail of hardships and repeated setbacks. In an effort to redeem our lost dignity, in an effort to regain self-respect, we find our true selves. By working independently to better ourselves and struggling to fulfill our cherished values, we save ourselves while coincidentally uplifting all of humanity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I do not care if nobody resembles me.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I kindly ask you to place your name in 1 Corinthians 13:4-6. And read it out loud. This verse will help you reflect on your own behavior, to become the right type of person for yourself and others.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won’t be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.

~ T.taylor

Self-esteem, self confidence

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs -- don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.

~ Charity Shumway

The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words.

~ Auliq Ice

I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth... I must walk away. I owe it to myself... I owe it to my future.

~ Steve Maraboli

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

~ Rob Liano

Are you kidding me? This is an issue that you need to consider according to your own principles rather than specific rules.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

~ Leeann Taylor

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.

~ Sherry Argov

I often leave... You see, I'm not angry nor hold grouches at what they do. It makes me angry that they would get mad if I did what they do.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed by a failure to show self-respect. The wrongdoer may be harmed by being deprived of an important incentive - the desire to be forgiven - that could move him toward repentance and moral rebirth.

~ Jeffrie G. Murphy

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Self-love, self-confident and self-determination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.

~ Shannon L. Alder