Motivating Quotes About Self Respect

by joi on March 18, 2008

 

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Quotes About Self Respect

Not respecting yourself is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate. - Unknown

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. - Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own. - Eric Hoffer

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

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.  - Mahatma Gandhi

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