Self Respect Quotes

What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.

~ Abiola Abrams

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Decedents of the beautiful women that fought so hard for centuries to be equal and not objects of men's will, only their achievement to die in vain. As today's woman single desire is to be any men's object by any means on her part. Talk about irony...

~ Irena Deneva

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

~ Ed Asner

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.

~ Kees Broos

Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be selfish enough to have self love, self worth and self respect.

~ Robin Dabhi

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn't being confident; it is called being a doormat.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

~ Shannon L. Alder

be a woman of confidence and self-respect, give a man a reason worth fighting for.

~ Nikki Rowe

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

~ Amit Kalantri

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

~ Amit Kalantri

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.

~ Jennifer Delucy

Hope is my strength. My strength is my weapon. And my Love, nurtures them both.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Of course she no longer excites him. She no longer works overtime to maintain a dumpster fire.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

There are zero excuses or delays when oneself is determined to grow.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

My main purpose in life is to do everything on purpose.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Never let your desire for love override your sense of self and value.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The one person you'll be spending the rest of your life with is you. Treat yourself with love and respect.

~ Elle Sommer

If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

~ Shannon L. Alder