Quotes about Self-respect
Most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.
— Cindy Woodsmall
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
— Charles Spurgeon
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
All must respect those who respect themselves.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
— Gloria Steinem
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
— Thomas Monson
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
— Zig Ziglar
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
— Henry David Thoreau
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
— Proverbs 5:9
You can spoil your fun, your day, your life—that's your business—but I won't let you spoil my fun, my day, or my life.
— Melody Beattie