David Nicholls Quotes

If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

But respect yourself most of all.

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.

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

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

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

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.

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.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

Healthy respect for yourself.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.