Self Respect Quotes

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don't beg for those things which can be earned.

~ Amit Kalantri

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

~ Amit Kalantri

Most people spend their lives doing one of two things to their emotions: numbing or venting. Self-loving people do something very different—they accept each emotion as a piece of communication and they try to decode it. This way, emotions can become important guideposts on the journey of self-discovery, rather than annoying roadblocks.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

~ Stig Dagerman

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

~ Jack Kornfield

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

~ Mina Loy

If only you could be yourself. they shouted. So, she did. You are not like me or anyone I have met! they screamed. So, she blended. You are so fake. they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.

~ Gary Hopkins

Sometimes No is the kindest word.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

~ Charlotte Brontë

A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown.

~ Nikki Rowe

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

~ Abhijit Naskar

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

~ Thomas S. Monson

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two competing emotions—love and hate.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

~ Flannery O'connor

When you express purity which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

~ Tae Yun Kim

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

~ Jim Butcher

Some of us are filled with a unique inner light. Others around us cease to exist because of it. The light opaques them. The outcome is, they will try everything in their power to tear it off, from you. Unless you accept their terms; to give up that uniqueness, forever.“Now, my question for you is: Are you a people pleaser or are you one of us?

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Sometimes I have to act crazy to handle the crazies. Trying to be normal near the crazies makes me as crazy as them. The more I push reason and logic on them, the more they pervert it and use it against me, the angrier they make me feel. It's much easier to pretend they're ghosts talking to the wind, and ignore them as if they weren't really human. My mood improves, my self-esteem is better and I feel happier. On another hand, maybe I'm just being realistic here, because you can't really talk to the dead. That's what people without respect or empathy are; dead in the brain; just walking bodies without a soul.

~ Robin Sacredfire

I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?

~ Jaye Robin Brown

When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.

~ Auliq Ice

No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

~ Lenon Honor

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h

~ Jennifer Lopez

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

~ Euphoria Godsent

But I was coming to learn that much of your perception of a relationship is shaped by everything else that happens to be going on in your life at the time. When I first met Ed Farley, I had been starved for love. He was the first man I'd ever known to show me kindness. Hr had taken my loneliness away. And for that I knew I would always be grateful. But being grateful was not enough of a reason to stay with someone.

~ Patricia Park

When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

~ Sanober Khan

Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness; and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us; this is rather a dangerous way to put it; let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something; whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.

~ Edward O. Sisson

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

~ Karen Salmansohn