Self Respect Quotes

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

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

May Sarton

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

I am as my creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.

Minnie Smith

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

Hyrum Smith

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Victor Frankl

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Johnson

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

Woodrow Wilson

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Jean de la Bruyere

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

Jean de la Bruyere

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

William Hazlitt

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Alain French

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

Jim Courier

The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.

Ben Sweet

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heinrich Heine

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

Proverb

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Mark Twain