(97 quotes found)
“Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.”
Frank Barron
“. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.”
Beatrice Potter Webb
“The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience”
Bible
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
Abraham J. Heschel
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.”
Emma Goldman
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.”
Kurt Cobain
