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Self-Respect Quotes

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

Worth Self-Respect Commodity

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Humility Me Self-Respect Club Taught

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day Man Every Day Self-Respect Clean

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

Best Authority Self-Respect Obedience

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Pride Self-Respect Like Substitute

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Self-Respect Knows Considerations

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Good Opinion Self-Respect Personal

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

Life Parents My Life Self-Respect

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Work Laziness Self-Respect Never

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Life Self-Respect Your Every Aspect

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Food Drama Self-Respect Hatred Order

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Elizabeth Bowen

Loved Wish Feeling Self-Respect Out

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Feeling Self-Respect Secure

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Life Responsibility Self-Respect Own

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson

Integrity Respect Test Self-Respect

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Theodore Parker

Self-Respect Never Individual Your

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

Value Face Self-Respect China Where

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Worth Price Self-Respect Question

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Music Today Talent Self-Respect Will

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

Man Doing Self-Respect Difficult Who

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

Good Music Money Create Self-Respect

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

You Hide Self-Respect Nothing Need

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

Opportunity Self New Self-Respect

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Woman Finding Now Self-Respect Try

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