64 Top Self Respect Quotes & Sayings
Self Respect is pride and confidence in oneself; a feeling that one is behaving with honour and dignity.
1. Self care is not self indulgence. Self care is self respect.
Gateway
2. Sometimes you need to walk away. Not to make someone else realize how worthy you are, but for you to understand & acknowledge your own self worth.
Anonymous
3. Don't lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people love and appreciate you, when they just aren't capable.
Anonymous
4. Self respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
5. Do not tolerate disrespect, not even from yourself.
Anonymous
6. A self-respecting woman is like the sword in the stone; Only a very special man can pull her.
Anonymous
7. You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself.
Anonymous
8. They say treat people the way you like to be treated. I say treat people the way they treat you.
Anonymous
9. In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion.
Anonymous
10. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Anonymous
11. Don't let your loyalty become slavery. Know when to let go and never compromise on self respect.
Anonymous
12. Never beg for a relationship. Be brave to accept the one who really wants to be with you… And reject the one who just pretends to be with you.
Anonymous
13. Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
Janis Joplin
14. Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Abdul Kalam
15. Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Anonymous
16. Cutting people out of my life does not mean i hate them, it simply means i respect me.
Anonymous
17. In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Anonymous
18. Sometimes you have to try not to care, No matter how much you do, because sometimes you can mean nothing to someone who means so much to you…. Its not PRIDE. It’s SELF RESPECT…
Anonymous
19. Just because someone desires you, does not mean that they value you
Anonymous
20. Put Me Second And I'll Make You Nonexistent.
Anonymous
21. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Clint Eastwood
22. People Will Treat You The Way You Let Them
Anonymous
23. Ego is negative but self-respect is positive. His Holiness
Younus AlGohar
24. No relationship is ever worth sacrificing your dignity or self respect for.
Anonymous
25. Once you feel you are avoided by someone, never disturb them again.
Anonymous
26. If it's meant for you, you won't have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.
Anonymous
27. I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Anonymous
28. Don't lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything
Anonymous
29. Don't let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you.
Anonymous
30. If you don't, others won't either. Remember the world sees what you put out there, so hold yourself to a high standard of grace and elegance.
Anonymous
31. I simply don’t care how much you gossip about me. Your fabricated stories can never dampen my self respect or make me feel inferior.
Anonymous
32. When someone treats you like you’re just one of many options, help them narrow their choice by removing yourself from the equation. Sometimes you have to try not to care, no matter how much you do. Because sometimes you can mean almost nothing to someone who means so much to you. It’s not pride- it’s self respect. Don’t give part-time people a full-time position in your life. Know your value and what you have to offer, and never settle for anything less than what you deserve.
Anonymous
33. Find your self-respect now. Don’t dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It’s so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica Mckeller
34. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J.H. Boetcker
35. Don’t lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people love and appreciate you, when they just aren’t capable.
Anonymous
36. In order to preserve your self respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Robert Byrne
37. And I'm losing my self respect.
Wonder Stuff
38. Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
39. People need to understand that if they don't respect themselves, then no one will respect them
Anonymous
40. Never allow yourself to be so desperate that you end up settling for far less than what you deserve.
Anonymous
41. They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
Mahatma Gandhi
42. Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
Anonymous
43. Self-respect can be a extension of your ego or a priceless virtue.
Anonymous
44. Teach Others How To Treat You By First Treating Yourself With Respect If You Do No Respect Yourself It Will Be Hard To Demand That Others Treat You With Respect.
Anonymous
45. Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
46. Don't lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people accept, love and appreciate you, when they just aren't capable.
Anonymous
47. Self love. It doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.
Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
48. I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect.
Mandy Hale
49. Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it.
Anonymous
50. Sometimes you have to forget what you want to remember what you deserve.
Anonymous
51. Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
52. Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
53. Never lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people love and appreciate you when they just aren't willing to.
Anonymous
54. The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
55. Was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.
Rosa Park
56. The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do good, but instead leave them all to chance.
Brice Marden
58. Self respect is the fruit of discipline.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
59. I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
Roger Nash Baldwin
60. Self respect is the most valuable asset you have never lose it for anyone or anything.
Anurag Prakash Ray
61. If a man’s innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man’s will, like woman’s, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.
Augusta Jane Evans
62. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers
63. Sometimes you have to try not to show how much you care even though you do.. Because sometimes you mean nothing to someone who means everything to you. It’s not pride. It is called self-respect.
Anonymous
64. I may not be the girl that everyone wants, but at least I'm not the girl that everyone's had
Anonymous