Quotes about Self-respect
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.
— Henry David Thoreau
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
— Ayn Rand
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
— Beth Moore
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
— Henry David Thoreau
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
— Toni Morrison
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
— Zig Ziglar
I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!
— Emily Bronte
Don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — don't.
— Emily Bronte