“Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”— Clint Eastwood, imdb.com
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love...”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Doesn’t it scare you that you’ve wasted more than half of your life hating yourself? It should.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“She doesn’t need to text you, because she has self-respect. Self-esteem. Self-love. And that’s all she really needs.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“So many men mistake their own disrespect for women as a woman's lack of self-respect.”— Ryan Henly, facebook.com
“No matter how I present myself, I’m confident and I’m comfortable. My self-respect is doing what makes me happy. When I’m hungry, I eat, when I’m thirsty I drink, I have self-respect, I look after myself. You can't tell me what ladylike is because we don't live in the '50s any more. I am looking for…”— Faith Sobotker, news.com.au
“Self-respect has nothing to do with sex or nudity. Self-respect means making choices that make you happy.”— Unknown, femalecollective.tumblr.com
“We've been taught having self respect means keeping ourselves covered, not showing too much skin, not too much cleavage... we've been told wearing booty shorts make us cheap and nasty. We've been told we have to act, dress, and do certain things in order to have self respect - but we are not the one…”— hannah-ruth-x, hannah-ruth-x.tumblr.com
“The whole "good girl vs. hoes" mentality is nothing but misogynistic. It's denying a woman simple respect just (because) she's not "modest." If you only respect a woman when she's "modest", you don't actually respect women. That's not how this works. You respect a woman regardless of how she present…”— @delafro_, mysharona1987.tumblr.com
“A woman should've have to be clothed from head to toe in order for you to respect her. If your respect for women is conditional, keep it.”— @delafro_, mysharona1987.tumblr.com
“‘Have some self respect’ literally has nothing to do with me. It’s about you rating and weighing my behaviour against a 2 dimensional caricature of a women that you think deserves basic decency. I respect myself. What you mean is ‘please conform to my personal, rigid beliefs of what I deem acceptabl…”— iamatinyowl, iamatinyowl.tumblr.com
“Why should a woman have to be modest in order to be respected?”— Unknown, letitcome--letitbe.tumblr.com
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Respect your boundaries. If you head out to the club and you pick out someone you want to bone for the night and then you decide that, actually, you don't think you are going to respect yourself in the morning -- listen to yourself on that one. You can say no. That's not something you give up when y…”— Marianne, xojane.com
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”— Joan Didion, goodreads.com