Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

When I was young and getting bullied at school and really not feeling like I would amount to much and staying isolated, my mom used to say to me a lot about how you treat people and always having dignity and respect.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.

No individual should rely on any other human being or system to define their worth as a human being. You have to begin to find that within yourself.

You don't ever want to seem less than a person.

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

And every human being is precious.

After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

I'm a human being before anything else.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.