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There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect. — Sandor Marai

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect. — Sharon Salzberg

Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better. — Shampa Sharma

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. — John J. McCloy

A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be — Patty Smith

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them. — Nathaniel Branden

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value. — Rob Liano

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. — Joan Didion

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, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights — Balroop Singh

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde

The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself. — T Jay Taylor

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect ... you know ... like being people. — Toni Cade Bambara

If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way — Eve Ensler

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. — Ed Koch

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect ... always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power. — Auliq Ice

A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm! — Maddy Malhotra

To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, Phenobarbital, — Helen Sword

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves. — Honore De Balzac

Learn to live in this world with self-respect — B.R. Ambedkar

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. — Jane Haddam

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. — May Sarton

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth. — Robert Muller

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to. — Shannon L. Alder

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. — Shannon L. Alder

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo — Rossana Condoleo

You don't allow yourself the arrogance of self respect. — Robert Mamrak

Aziz was that rare type of man a woman could love without losing her self-respect. — Elif Shafak

Finding out what you're good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect. — J.K. Rowling

His self-respect was at its lowest ebb. — C.S. Forester

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself. — Kilroy J. Oldster

When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all. — Andrea Hurst

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect. — Ronald Reagan

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. — Rita Mae Brown

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack — Ayn Rand

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world. — B. Barmanbek

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. — Barry Bonds

A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect. — David Schnarch

Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences. — Maria Erving

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. — Mark Twain

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. — Henry David Thoreau

We have power over nothing except our will. — Michel De Montaigne

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe, — Chuck Palahniuk

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

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you. — Karen Salmansohn

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. — Ayn Rand

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. — David Eddings

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. — Marshall Sylver

Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most. — Abhishek Rai

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do. — Vironika Tugaleva

You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers. — David Mitchell

If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain. — K.D. Harp

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. — Thomas Huxley

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment. — E.D.E.N. Southworth

Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity. — Sam Owen

Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that's just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it. — Tilicia Haridat

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. — Joseph Joubert

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect. — Mahatma Gandhi

I may not be a king or a queen, but I'll be damned if I'm not treated like royalty. — Samuel Crone

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes "No" is the kindest word. — Vironika Tugaleva

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes. — Auliq Ice

Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself. — Miranda J. Barrett

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley

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

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement. — Richard Rorty

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. — Julia Cameron

[A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect. — Robert A. Heinlein

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. — Julia Cameron

You can't belittle a person in one breath and then expect them to grow self-respect and self-reliance with the next. — Tim Greaton

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. — Barry Gibb

But the trade-off for my self-respect was a cold bed and an over-used vibrator, and it was starting to wear thin. — Sierra Simone

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. — Alfred North Whitehead

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior. — Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like. — Shannon L. Alder

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing. — Laura C. Schlessinger

All respect is earned, even self-respect. — Bohdi Sanders

True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial. — Henry James

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself. — Robert Black

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. — Henry David Thoreau

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt. — Susan Sontag

People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more. — Ted Corbitt

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all. — Bruce Springsteen

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. — Anton Chekhov

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell. — Shannon L. Alder

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

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

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

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. — Gloria Steinem

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to
self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power. — Clint Eastwood

a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master. — Sarah Vowell

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again. — Feist

If you can't remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you're overdue. — Gina Greenlee

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. — Matthew Parris