Quotes about Self-respect
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
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
— Abraham Lincoln
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
— Herman Melville
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.
— Wayne Dyer
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
— Brian Tracy
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
— William Hazlitt
There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.
— Maya Angelou