More quotations tagged with “self-respect”
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
—Robert Byrne
Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity.
—Julie Garwood in Prince Charming
Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
—Joan Didion
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.
—Martin Luther King Jr.