Self Respect Quotes - Page 7

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  I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Expectations, Women History Month, Knows

  "A Justice Deliberates: Sotomayor On Love, Health And Family". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.

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• I hate that you don't have the insight.
  I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out.
  I hate that you don't even seem to have the slightest self-respect.
  And also the fact that you used San as your "heart-wrenching" excuse to return.
  Back to this hell-hole.

  Cho Gun-woo

  Drama, Hate, Heart

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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Thank God

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• Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

  Denis Waitley

  Respect, Powerful, Integrity

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• Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Integrity, Military, Self

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• For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Self, Evil

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• I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Self

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

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• The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Self, Trying

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Respect, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.17

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• I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

  Dick Francis

  Self, Next, Ruins

  Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”

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• The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Self, Decision, Healthy

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Responsibility, Character

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 09, 2011

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Being Single

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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• Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states - “fear societies” and “free societies.”… The two societies make up two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped …
  In contrast, the consciousness of freedom … is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry … It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect.

  Naomi Wolf

  Writing, Self, Two

  "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries". Book by Naomi Wolf, September 16, 2008.

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• The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fighting, Self, Temptation

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

  Bunker Roy

  Self Confidence, Opportunity, People

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• And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Girl, Memories, Mean

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• You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

  Queen Latifah

  Strength, Looks, Ems

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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Integrity, Self, Judgment

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• Hard work breeds self-respect.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Self

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.24, Crown Business

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• It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

  Alfred Nobel

  Respect, Order, Ethics

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• Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

  Tina Fey

  Rocks, Self, People

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

  William Faulkner

  Courage, Integrity, Believe

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Respect, Choices, Pay

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