I Respect Myself Quotes

• 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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  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Respect, Fear, Integrity

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

  Fiona Apple

  Believe, Doing Me, Belive

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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

  June Jordan

  Life, Happiness, Success

  1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• 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.

  Max Nordau

  Respect, Doe, Would Be

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• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Respect, Self Esteem, Self Worth

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Foolish, Made

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hugo to Slick and Georges, Act 3, sc. 2, 1948.

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• We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude, Home, People

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• If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

  Georges St-Pierre

  Ufc, Mma, Opponents

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• I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Respect, Self Respect

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• Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this question: “Do I respect the work I’m doing?” If the answer to the latter question is NO, then the answer to the former question will probably be NO too. If this is the case, wait a few weeks, then ask yourself the same two questions. If the answers are still NO, quit.

  Ken Baumann

  Two, Waiting, Answers

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