Respect Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Being Alone

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

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• Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Inspirational, Respect, Self Esteem

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Respect, Inspirational Life, Warrior

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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

  Jane Haddam

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• Look the world straight in the eye.

  Helen Keller

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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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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• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

  Axel Munthe

  Respect, Attitude, Self Esteem

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Self, Hunted, Self Respect

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  Gail Sheehy

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Live Life

  "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

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• To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Lying, Self

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.108, Zola Books

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• Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

  Clint Eastwood

  Respect, Self, Discipline

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• I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

  John Galsworthy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

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• 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

  Respect, Eye, Men

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• 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

  Successful, Awards, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

  "You Learn by Living".

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• The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

  Robert Hand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Self Love

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Confidence, Respect, Self Esteem

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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  The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

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