Self Respect Quotes - Page 10

• Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

  Kevin James

  Dream, Thinking, Firsts

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• Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

  Joshua Mohr

  Self, Punishment, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Thinking, Self

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• People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.

  Michael Ventura

  Creativity, Self, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I like making sure that I've got a decent haircut, my beard's a decent length. I trim it once a week and that's all I need to do. Also, shoes polished. Just put yourself together properly. It's about self-respect, but it's also about having a bit of respect for the people you're interacting with on a daily basis.

  Patrick Grant

  Shoes, Self, People

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Self, The End Of The Day

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• Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

  Price Pritchett

  Pride, Vanity, Self

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• Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Stars, Jobs, Motivation

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• If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Sacrifice, Loss, Self

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Acceptance, Self, Giving

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• I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

  Felicity Jones

  Self, Interesting, Inner Strength

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Motivation, Powerful, Children

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• I came out as a gay as I have earned myself respect as an athlete. I have only lost 2 out of 22 professional fights. I knocked out some of my opponents in the first round. But I never really received respect as a person. That's something I had come to realize over the past few years. The end of my boxing career is no longer that far off, and it was time for me to make peace with myself. And there was a second reason for me to come out: I hoped it would make me a better boxer.

  Orlando Cruz

  Athlete, Gay, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

  Fred Reed

  Self, Democracy, Imagine

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• And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Self

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.310, Lulu.com

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• There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self Esteem, Home, Jewels

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• When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

  Susan Jeffers

  Self, World, Behavior

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Self, Favors

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK, I did what I could, just stay true to yourself.If you feel that this is something that's valid and you should go out there and win, then push through it no matter what the outcome is. Just know that nine times out of 10 that no matter whether you were right or you were wrong, the NFL is a business.

  Adrian Peterson

  Winning, Self, Nfl

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation.

  Steven Petrow

  Thinking, Keys, Self

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Common Sense

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

  Paul Giamatti

  Pride, Hair, Self

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• Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

  Simphiwe Dana

  Self, Effort, Who We Are

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• Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

  Abraham Low

  Self, Self Control, Sense Of Self

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• Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Self Confidence, Reality

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