Self Respect Quotes Quotes & Sayings

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness. — Karen Salmansohn

Your life changes, when you focus on self-love, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Only your opinions of self love matter. Respect yourself. — Auliq Ice

Being kind is not an invitation to be dumped on. So be kind, but not at the expense of your self-respect. — Charles F. Glassman

Honour your core sexual values and express them directly — Miya Yamanouchi

Social Networking Reality Check: After you've met, reunited, scheduled, confirmed, celebrated and reminisced, re-boot and remind yourself that your closest friends are probably not even on FaceBook. Life's most intimate personal details, insecurities, conflicts and "drama" should not play out on a public website. Your discretion, dignity and self respect should not log off when you log on. — Carlos Wallace

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes. — Auliq Ice

Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment. — Miya Yamanouchi

To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect. — Human Angels

Being sensitive and kind are admirable pursuits ... and so are knowing when you're being taking advantage of and simply walking away. — Charles F. Glassman

There is nothing to fear
From your reflection — Richard L. Ratliff

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences. — Maria Erving

A person who has self-love and self-respect has everything. — Debasish Mridha

I'm happy I have enough self respect to dismiss the people out my life who don't deserve to be there. — Auliq Ice

Nothing is greater than or lesser than the self. — Rene Gaudette

Yes I have done it all. Tested the shallow waters, swam through the dangerous tides, met strangers, seen friends turn strangers, taken risks to achieve my goals, persevered to out do myself each time, rose high, fell hard, learned to climb, learned to dream and in dreaming learned to relate to reality.
I have earned respect, achieved things very young, believed in my potential, questioned it too but through it all I have never stopped to aspire. I am a human and I must adapt to the changing seasons, learn new skills and master them all.
Now as I stand and look up, I see a heap of laurels yet to achieve and chest of mysteries yet to resolve. I am not one in the crowd. I'll forever be the one whom they could never be — Adhish Mazumder

Most people spend their lives doing one of two things to their emotions: numbing or venting. Self-loving people do something very different - they accept each emotion as a piece of communication and they try to decode it. This way, emotions can become important guideposts on the journey of self-discovery, rather than annoying roadblocks. — Vironika Tugaleva

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You just can't apologize for being you nor for your emotional self, nor for your intellectual self, nor for spiritual self, nor for your physical self. It's all a part of who you are, signal that you don't value who you are, once that occurs you have a serious work to do, to get back to where you need to be in order to move on in life. — Auliq Ice

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power. — Amit Ray

Love and respect for self should become a necessity. — Winsome Campbell-Green

They say nice guys finish last. That may be true, if the only people you're nice to are the ones who constantly disrespect you. — Charles F. Glassman

It takes courage to live your truth. But what you get in return is self-respect. — Auliq Ice

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this! — Shannon L. Alder

If you allow someone to be disrespectful to you today, they'll be disrespectful to you tomorrow also, and the day after that, and the day after that and so on. — Sarvesh Jain

No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself. — Abhijit Naskar

It's better to be alone and keep your dignity than to be in a relationship where you always sacrifice your self respect. — Auliq Ice

My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth. — Karen Salmansohn

In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it. Know when to close the account. It's always better to be alone with dignity than in a relationship that constantly requires you to sacrifice your happiness and self-respect. — Auliq Ice

Consider your self as a strong person when you have been challenged enough...(think about it) If you have allowed people to continually step all over you,then you deserve to be used as a doormat! — Auliq Ice

Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present. — Rob Martin

Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions. — Sharon Salzberg

I have, and always will, respect people that keep it real no matter what. Most people say "Just keep it real with me," but the fact of the matter is this: Most people can't handle the truth, don't want to accept the truth, deny the truth, or simply aren't willing to face THEIR truth. The next time that you tell somebody to be honest with you, make sure that you mean what you say. Have the courage to pay more attention, listen, and observe. But have greater courage to acknowledge "what is" and face YOUR truth with boldness. The truth is better than a lie any day. Be fearless! — Stephanie Lahart

The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words. — Auliq Ice

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect. — Sharon Salzberg

Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us. — Miya Yamanouchi

It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody. — C. JoyBell C.

Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power. — Auliq Ice

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Being a good father to our children requires a few goals:
1. Be an example of personal responsibility
2. Display self-respect
3. Be an example of personal growth, passion, and perseverance
4. Recognize and accept your child's particular gifts and nurture them, not wish they had others
5. Love and respect your wife — Charles F. Glassman

Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. — Abhijit Naskar

Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence. — Debasish Mridha

Start a daily routine of looking at yourself in the mirror through a lens of unconditional love, appreciation, admiration and respect....Connect with the soul behind the image of you in the mirror. Look upon yourself with complete adoration, acceptance and non- judgement. — Miya Yamanouchi

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you. — Abhijit Naskar

The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less. — Auliq Ice

A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill. — Kilroy J. Oldster

All respect is earned, even self-respect. — Bohdi Sanders

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. — Roopleen

I may not be a king or a queen, but I'll be damned if I'm not treated like royalty. — Samuel Crone

I CHOOSE to live by choice not by chance, to be motivated not manipulated, to be useful not used, to make change not excuses, to excel not compete. I CHOOSE self-esteem not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, NOT TO LISTEN TO THE RANDOM OPINIONS OF OTHERS. — Auliq Ice

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. — Auliq Ice

Opening the door to self-respect is a key of happiness. — Charles F. Glassman

Self-esteem, self confidence — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can't remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you're overdue. — Gina Greenlee

My self-respect is my biggest cock block. — Maggie Young

Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything. — Auliq Ice