Self Respect Quotes - Page 11

• If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Challenges

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• Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Years, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

  Sharon Olds

  Lying, Writing, Self

  "Get Over an Ex: Advice for After the Breakup" by Sharon Olds, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Men, Self

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fighting, Self, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Self, Important, Gains

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• The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

  Robert Breault

  Respect, Morning, Integrity

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• For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.

  Jason Whitlock

  Brother, Self, Common Sense

  "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL". Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.

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• I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Rights, Sight

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Self, Feelings

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

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• Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Self, Way, Should

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3998, Library of Alexandria

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• Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self­ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

  Tad R. Callister

  Men, Self, Dresses

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• Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

  Ann Landers

  Self, Faces, Maintaining

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• Self respect is impossible without liberty.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Self, Liberty, Impossible

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.189

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• Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Men, Race

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress”

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• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Men, Cities

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

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• It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

  Will Rogers

  Sports, Greatness, Humans

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Self, Heaven

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

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• For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

  Luke Evans

  Self, People, Creative

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• The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

  Thomas Szasz

  Wise, Self, Wealth

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Self, Firsts

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.127, Рипол Классик

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• There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jail, Self, World

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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