Self Respect Quotes - Page 20

• Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Perfect, Waiting, Enjoy

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2011

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• ... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Self, Should Have

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• Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Philosophy, Nice, Makeup

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.292, Penguin

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• For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Four, Ethics

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• Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

  Steig Larsson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Trust

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• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Requirements

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Punishment, Self, Intellectual

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.304, UPNE

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• There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Pride, Self, Honest

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• By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Self Esteem, Tv Shows

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• With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.

  B. C. Forbes

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

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• One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Night, Said, Accounts

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• Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

  Mariela Dabbah

  Criticism, Opinion, Agree

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• . . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, Class, Careers

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.355, Cambridge University Press

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• To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Lying, Home

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 14, 2011

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• Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

  Neil Peart

  Pride, Self, People

  Neil Peart (2010). “The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa”, p.86, ECW Press

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• But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

  Huey Newton

  Suicide, Self, Dignity

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• Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Loyalty, Honesty, Self

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• I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

  Kristy Swanson

  Respect, Sex, Self

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• Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, Fearless, Despair

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Mother, Self Esteem

  Sigmund Freud (1975). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”

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• When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Purity

  Dr. Tae Yun Kim (2011). “Seven Steps to Inner Power”, p.43, Jung SuWon

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• There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".

  James E. Faust

  Strength, Self, Order

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

  Dale Carnegie

  Change, Hurt, Pride

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• In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Husband, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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