Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest...

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there’s nothing you can do to change it. You can’t take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a...

The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people’s opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own...

Be determined to live in the light.

To stand by yourself — that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation...

There are, literally, thousands of people all around the world who need nothing more than to meet someone just like you. To spend your time pretending to be someone else is just as senseless and...

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

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

No body is worth more than your body

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute...

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However,...

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Honesty defines self respect.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Incredible how so many people have no sense of honor. How does this happen? This happens by thriving on how one appears to the world around him rather than cultivating a person inside him that...

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.

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

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil — improper influence! What old woman’s cackle is that?””Are you a young lady?””I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as...

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The people that truly love us in life don’t fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

Treat your advices like your money, don’t give it to others unless they ask for it.

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry… He really doesn’t care what others do around him… but if you do hurt His PRIDE… He wont let you live another Day

Don’t let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.

focus on him or her, but to really focus on the thing that’s good about you. … We’re asking women to be honest with themselves.

The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain while maintaining a strong sense of self-respect. I obeyed his commands, sure that I could fulfill this...

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you...

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property...

The treasure shouldn’t do the hunting, and you’re a treasure.

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect,...

Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one’s life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one’s human life. We...

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that’s the only way you know how to play; but I refuse...

I don’t beg for those things which can be earned.

Knowing your limits, and that there is a limit to getting what you want, comes from a sense of self-respect instilled in you from an early age. It takes guts to stand up in the...

Don’t shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline and self-discipline paves a way for respect towards others.

One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but...

Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: ‘know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?