Self Respect Quotes - Page 5

• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Humility, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Look the world straight in the eye.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

  Anna Gould

  Success, Beautiful, Wise

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• Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Trust, Respect, Men

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  Maya Angelou

  Respect, African American, Black Women

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

  Jim Rohn

  Work, Self Esteem, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 25, 2013

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• You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

  Romare Bearden

  Respect, Art, Mean

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• Have good trust in yourself,
  not in the One that you think you should be,
  but in the One that you are.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Trust, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

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• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

  Halle Berry

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Personality

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• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

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• Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Respect, Rights, Giving

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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• I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

  John Galsworthy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

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• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  Bono

  Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself

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• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Respect, Philosophical

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Respect, Believe

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  Confucius

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

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• It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Respect, People

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• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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• I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Inspirational, Respect, Ethics

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

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

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• Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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