Self Respect Quotes - Page 15

• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Equality, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

  George Sand

  Selfish, Self, Selfishness

  George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.145, Chicago Review Press

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• Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Answers, Belief

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• If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Respect, Ethics

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

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• Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Self, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.549, Penguin

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• But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Peace, Power

  "A Year with Emerson: A Daybook".

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• Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered

  Stephen Cosgrove

  Respect, Book, Diversity

  Stephen Cosgrove (1978). “Creole”

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• I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Men, Keys

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 10, 2011

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Self Esteem, People, Rejection

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Reputation

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.28, Bantam

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• Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

  Jo Brand

  Christian, Mean, Self

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• I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Never follow the crowd.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Individuality

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• Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self, Over You, World

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.88, Penguin

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• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Faith, Respect

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Kindness, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.781, Penguin

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• Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

  Cary Grant

  Inspirational, Respect, Children

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• I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Queens, Men, Self

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.106, Trajectory Inc

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• I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

  Richard Bach

  Respect, Love Relationship, Want

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• You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Self, Loses

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• Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he’s great in the eyes of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.441, Penguin

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• The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Mistake, Teaching, Rights

  Broadcast to the people of Australia, February 19, 1948.

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• What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

  Justina Chen

  Gratitude, Self, Mutual

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