Respecting Yourself Quotes

If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. afterall we're all sand

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.

We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

I would love to be loved for what I am, and not for what I have!

Honour, like insult, comes from others. It is their recognition of our worth. It is the intrusion of the social into the psychological, the public into the private. After all, others honour us for what they find of worth in us. ‘To pursue [honour],’ wrote Baruch Spinoza in Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (1677), ‘we must direct our lives according to other men’s powers of understanding, fleeing what they commonly flee and seeking what they commonly seek.’ So what we come to think of as worthwhile in ourselves is bound to have as a large component what others think to be worthwhile in us.

You are sure you mean bliss?''Yes, an island or some place where we could all live or go to easily whenever we pleased and do all the things we wish to do without thought of the narrow-mindedness of others.''You are asking too much. Oh, for the Isle of Crete! You are wishing a return to the good old Pagan times when all honor was paid even to prostitutes.''No, not asking too much, just asking for a natural morality, a thing which varies with each bird, beast, and human and for which due allowance is not made in lawmaking.

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

Happiness is ours for the taking and take it we must without any apologies. We deserve to be happy, loved, and respected......nothing less.

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

Each moment, each person, is sacred and worthy of respect- especially you.

When you begin to care too much about what everyone else says, your confidence shrinks and you start to feel like insignificant, little Jack in a strange land of intimidating giants. But when you come to realize that opinions are as diverse and plentiful as dried beans, you might reach the conclusion that your own is of the greatest worth. That's when your confidence grows, and soon you find yourself striding like Gandalf the wondrous wizard among common hobbits in the shire. Respecting your own opinion is the magic that transforms both you and your world.

When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up.

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.

In silence you shall face self...and have respect.

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

Every Moment of your life is a new Page in your Book. Some Sentences you can’t change, even whole Pages. But you decide how your Book ends.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

Many people have the confused idea that peace will happen when all the colors in the palette are the same. The actuality of peace is accepting each color’s differences and seeing the beauty each possesses.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?

Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage. We cannot be humiliated when we are fighting for someone or something we love. We will not give up when we are fighting for loved ones. As we evolve, our loved ones extend out from our family to include all of humanity. Courage and confidence will grow over the years with practice and self-awareness. We are never alone. God will help us. Such is the courage which gains respect from others. More importantly, we gain respect for ourselves.

Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!

Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

I have been loved enough, now I want to be respected.

We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.

To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.

I want people to respect me and not just my position.