Self Respect Quotes

• The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspiration, Acceptance, People

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  Whatever good things we build end up building us.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 16, 2017

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• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

  Theodore Parker

  Respect, Self Esteem, Individuality

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

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  Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

  Clint Eastwood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  Jackie Robinson

  Motivational, Change, Baseball

  "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

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  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Respect, Fear, Integrity

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Ethics

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• They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Respect

  "Fictional character: Mohandas K. Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

  Thomas Huxley

  Respect, Self, World

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

  Josh Billings

  Self Esteem, Comedy, Disgrace

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• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

  Axel Munthe

  Respect, Attitude, Self Esteem

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

  Ed Koch

  Respect, Believe, Self

  "Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88". www.usatoday.com. February 1, 2013.

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Motivational, Buddhist, Yoga

  Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015

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• Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

  Clint Eastwood

  Respect, Self, Discipline

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• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

  Dale E. Turner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Errors

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• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Acceptance, Self Reliance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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• No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Love, Self Esteem, Self Acceptance

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• Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Inspirational, Respect, Self Esteem

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.

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• Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Self, Personality

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Self, Anything Worth Having

  "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.

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

  May Sarton

  Respect, Self, Needs

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Respect, Self, Consideration

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