Respect is admiration felt or shown for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities. Profoundly inspirational self respect quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Self Respect Quotes
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. – Maya Angelou
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. – Charlotte Brontë
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. – Lao Tzu
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne
A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. – Cardinal De Retz
Respect yourself and others will respect you. – Confucius
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. – Robert Byrne

Self-respect knows no considerations. – Mahatma Gandhi
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Gautama Buddha
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential. – Anna Gould
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. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. – Edward Koch
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. – Mahatma Gandhi
You do not need to be the designated driver of someone’s intoxicated ego. – Dodinsky
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. – Theodore Roosevelt
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. – Joe Clark
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. – Mahatma Gandhi
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. – Joan Didion
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. – John Herschel
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. – Thucydides
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. – Theodore Parker
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect. – George Sand
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. – Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect. – Amit Kalantri
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
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. – Gordon B. Hinckley
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. – Axel Munthe
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it. – Thomas Mann
Walk tall, or baby don’t walk at all. – Bruce Springsteen
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 Douglassa
Self-respect–the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. – H.L. Mencken
In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. – Jane Haddam
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack. – Ayn Rand
You’d be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you’d do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. – Sarah Addison Allen
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. – Dick Francis