Self Respect Quotes - Page 12

• If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

  Immortal Technique

  Self, Dignity, Lost

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Self, Independence

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Self, Giving, Feelings

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• It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Self, People, Way

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• I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

  Misha Collins

  Memories, Self, Trying

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• It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

  Cornel West

  Self, Leader, Black

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• Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

  David J. Lieberman

  Self, Feel Good, Crux

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.

  Jess C Scott

  Pain, Self, Identity

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• There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

  Julia Cameron

  Self, Connections, Nurturing

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jan 24, 2012

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• Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

  Otto Rank

  Acceptance, Men, Self

  Otto Rank (2012). “Beyond Psychology”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Self, Drunk, Touching

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• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Self, World, Opinion

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• Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Love You, Self Love

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• To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Yield, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.230, Rajpal & Sons

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• So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Self, Complacency, Possession

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.20, M.E. Sharpe

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• It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Finals, Intellect

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Jobs, Mean

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

  Michael Ray

  Running, Honesty, Business

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• Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Real, Self Esteem, Heart

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• My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.

  Richard Moran

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Eye

  Richard Moran (1990). “Dallas Down”, Jove Publications

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• Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

  Gina Carano

  Fighting, Self Confidence, Self Control

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• People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

  Charles A. Murray

  Self, People, Needs

  "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010". Book by Charles A. Murray, 2012.

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• Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Rudeness, Absence

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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