Quotes on self respect
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
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Robert Byrne Quotes
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
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Anna Gould Quotes
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Theodore Parker Quotes
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
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Laurence Sterne Quotes
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
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Joan Didion Quotes
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
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Jane Haddam Quotes
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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Joan Didion Quotes
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.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
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Cardinal De Retz Quotes
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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Confucius Quotes
The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
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Jeannette Rankin Quotes
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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John Herschel Quotes
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
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Max Nordau Quotes
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Rabbi Abraham Heschel Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Cyril Connolly Quotes
Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals.
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Author Unknown Quotes
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline...
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Abraham J. Heschel Quotes
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
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Edward Koch Quotes
Self-respect knows no considerations.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.
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Whitney Griswold Quotes