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• For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Topics in Self Respect

• I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Violate, Namely, Denial

• Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

  Clint Eastwood

  Topics in Inspirational, Power, Respect, Self Respect

  Tags in Self, Discipline

• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Sin, Right, Mankind, Criticism

• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Individual

• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Memory, Self Respect

  Tags in Good, Time, Everything, Self-Esteem, Destroy

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Measure, Man, Day

• We are going to try to long-term him. We originally wanted to do this in early February, but I guess Drew was just answering the question honestly.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Honestly, Guess

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

  May Sarton

  Topics in Self Respect

• How many times do you need to get hurt for you to know its time to let go.

  Unknown

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

  Tags in Relationship, Moving On, Letting Go

• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Politics, Progress, Self Respect

  Tags in Community, City

• Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

  Emma Goldman

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Patriotism

• To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Topics in Expectations, Self Respect

• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Self-Confidence

• 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

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Myself, Ridicule

• In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

  Jane Haddam

  Topics in Self Respect

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

  Joan Didion

  Topics in Self Respect

• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Ethics

• Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

  Jane Nelson

  Topics in Children, Kindness, Self Respect

  Tags in Idea