Self Respect Quotes - Page 16

• The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

  Alice Miller

  Self, Achievement, Quality

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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• If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Self, Practice, Discipline

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• He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Simple, Men, Self

  "The Talented Mr. Ripley".

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• But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

  Kiran Desai

  Believe, Pride, Self

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.285, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Self, Fool, Has Beens

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.168, Dial Press

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• A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

  Ayn Rand

  Self, Quests, Proof

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.414, Penguin

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• Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

  Stephen King

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

  Alberto Moravia

  Loyalty, Self, People

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.93, New York Review of Books

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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Being Alone

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

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• Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

  Philip James Bailey

  Respect, Giving, Ethics

  Philip James Bailey (1847). “Festus, a poem. By P. J. Bailey”, p.131

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• Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Relationship, Country, Husband

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.

  Naoki Higashida

  Compassion, Self, Persons

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• There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Pride

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• There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Pay The Price, Self

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Waiting Rooms, Self, Ideas

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

  George Washington

  War, Character, Self

  George Washington (1856). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.241

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• Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

  Charles Koch

  Responsibility, Government, Self

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• Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

  William Shakespeare

  Respect, Ethics, Persons

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [100]

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• It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.

  Judith Jamison

  Children, Pride, Self Worth

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• I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Spring, Eye

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• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

  Russell Lynes

  Teaching, Learning, Men

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• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Respect, Conceited, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

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• Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

  James Madison

  Respect, Character, Numbers

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hurt, Self

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• And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

  David McCullough

  Self, Principles, Matter

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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