Self Respect Quotes

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A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
- Anonymous

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Self-respect can be a extension of your ego or a priceless virtue.
- Anonymous

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There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
- Anonymous

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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
- Anonymous

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To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
- Theodore Parker

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Self-respect is the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- Anonymous

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- Anonymous

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
- Anonymous

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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
- Anonymous

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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
- Anonymous

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Have self respect..never allow anyone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline…
- Abraham J. Heschel

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
- Frederick Douglass

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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
- Axel Munthe

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If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
- Carla Gordon

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
- J. Petit Senn

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Self respect…that corner-stone of all virtue.
- Sir John Herschel

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Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?
- Sir P. Sidney

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Self respect can be a extension of your ego or a priceless virtue.
- Anonymous

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Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Les Brown

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Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- H L Mencken

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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
- Maya Angelou

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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

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

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I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self respect.
- Harold Ramis

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
- André Gide

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

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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
- Edgar Watson Howe

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He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham J. Heschel

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

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

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self respect.
- Thomas S. Monson

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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
- Paul Ambroise

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You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
- Israel Zangwill

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