I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.

When I’m brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I’m cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone...

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one’s self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?

Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they...

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole...

If it’s not on the table, don’t eat it off the floor.

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.