Quotes tagged ‘Self-Respect’

“Stevo: There were quite a few punks in the SLC back in '85, but there were equally as many posers. Posers were kids who would dress and act like punks but they did it for fashion. They were fools! They'd say shit like... Poser: Anarchy in the U.K.! Stevo: See what I mean? Posers. ‘Anarchy in the U.K…”

— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com

“You deserve the space that you can take up. And you can take up as much space as you need.”

— Megan Rapinoe, marieclaire.com

“You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something—how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?”

— Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson, Catherine Van Oost, Susan Anspach, imdb.com

“Self-respect isn’t a straight line, it’s a circle.”

— Sal Calleros, Pete / Marius, Giovanni Ribisi, imdb.com

“If you want respect you have to command respect it not demand it.”

— Iliza Shlesinger, netflix.com

“How absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship...I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.”

— Ariana Grande, teenvogue.com

“To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“If you have to choose between a relationship and your self-respect, always choose your self-respect.”

— Shuchi Singh Kalra, twitter.com

“The most important lesson I learned there was that to sustain my self-respect for a lifetime it would be necessary for me to have the honor of serving something greater than my self-interest.”

— John McCain, amazon.com

“It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying…”

— Joan Didion, vogue.com

“I don’t know why you’re still single — but it’s probably because you have actual standards. Because you aren’t going to date someone just for the sake of dating them. Because, even though you sometimes say that you hate yourself, you still practice self-love. You still do what is best for yourself.”

— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com

“Do not tolerate disrespect. Especially from yourself.”

— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com

“Forgive yourself, but adjust your habits.”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“If I respected myself, I would have walked away so much sooner instead of accepting the treatment that was given to me.”

— Jules Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

“Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.”

— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org

“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself, and be nice to myself.”

— Daul Kim, telegraph.co.uk

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“do not disrespect your heart. by hearing what it needs and giving it the opposite.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, twitter.com