Self Respect Quotes

Respect yourself, and others will respect you.

Let every girl who marries stand by her husband, claim to be her husband's friend and equal, and refuse to be his slave. I am sure if you follow this advice, you will bring honour and glory to yourselves.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

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

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

If someone tells you you're not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they can have a great view of your fabulous ass.

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.

Showing your body and showing your skin - or not - should not take any respect away from you.

I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.