Self-Respect Quotes

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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

- Carter G. Woodson

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

- Sonya Friedman

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

- Erich Fromm

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

- Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

- Thomas Carlyle

The greatest single cause of a poor self image is the absence of unconditional love.

- Zig Ziglar

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

- Hafiz of Persia

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

- Pema Chodron

What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference.

- Sara Ann Friedman

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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

- John Steinbeck

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Self-respect knows no considerations.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

- George Eliot

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

- Carl Rogers

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

- Maya Angelou

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The nice thing about self-love is that it's hardly ever unrequited.

- Solomon Short

Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think.

- Meredith Jordan