Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

Defend my honor - Protect my pride

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

I’m proud of the work that I’ve done. I don’t care what people label me as.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.