Self Respect Quotes - Page 4

• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  Preston Brooks

  Respect, Self, Should Have

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• There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

  Thomas Mann

  Respect, Real, Self

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• It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

  Jim Courier

  Athlete, Self Worth, Riding

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Loss, Self

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• You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Self, Easy, Equations

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.59, Bantam

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• My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.137, A&C Black

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• We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Character, Men

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• The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Self, Truest

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Self, Stones, Virtue

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• The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

  James Payn

  Respect, Mean, Men

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Self, Morality, Respecting Others

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• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  America, Self, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

  Theodore Parker

  Heart, Self, Soul

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

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• The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Respect, Self, Feelings

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Loss, Greatness, Self

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• There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Respect, Courage, Kings

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Confidence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2870, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 5), 1972.

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• To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

  Joan Didion

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Self

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Nov 10, 2013

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• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Respect, Time, Memories

  Rolling Stone Magazine, April 16, 1992.

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• The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Success, Nature

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Respect, Self

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Positive, Respect, Giving

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Respect, Thinking, Self

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