Self-Respect Sayings & Quotes
These self-respect sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. - Gail Sheehy
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. - George Bernard Shaw
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. - Robert E. Byrne
Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self reliance? - Abdul Kalam
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. - Henry David Thoreau
Lots of real creeps have self-respect. They just have a creepy version of it. [A Savage Place] - Robert Parker
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. - Victor Hugo
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. - Joan Didion
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. - Thomas Henry Huxley
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. - George Bernard Shaw
Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. - Henry Louis Mencken