Max Lucado Quotes

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

I see people giving me looks because I'm so opinionated. That hurts my feelings, but at the end of the day I have to live with me and respect myself. And I've done enough things in my life where I was confused and didn't respect myself that I will not do it any more.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I don't think I need to prove anything to anybody.

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

Nobody walks over me, ever, and no-one will walk over me, ever.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.

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

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.