Maureen Dowd Quotes

I don't think I should settle for anything less than what I'm valued at.

I'm not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.

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

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.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

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

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

People are going to give me the respect I deserve.

I'm not that type of guy that says, 'No, I think I deserve more.'

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

It is important to find worth in yourself.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

Never dip lower than you can dip.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

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