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.

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.

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.

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.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

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.

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.