Self-Respect

11 quotes.

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

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

• Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  Confucius

• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

  Helen Keller

• Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

  Aristotle

• Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• Self respect can not be hunted. It can not be purchased. It is not for sale. It can never be fabricated out of public relations.

  Whitney Griswold

• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

• The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

  James Oliver

• Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as could be, and he will become what he should be.

  Jimmy Johnson

• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

  Martha Grimes

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

  Joan Didion

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