Quotes about Self-respect
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
- Maya Angelou
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be bitch.
- Ernest Hemingway
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
- Aesop
Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He can't value you more than you value yourself.
- Toni Morrison
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
- William Hazlitt
You don't have to beg people to stay. You are a gift. You are a prize. You are exceptional. Let the wrong people go and God will send people that value who you are and people that can't wait to be with you.
- Joel Osteen
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
- Oscar Wilde
There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let this person be you.
- Anonymous