Ruby Rose Quotes

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

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.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

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.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

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.

I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.

She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

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.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.

I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

I know I'm a good person.

I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

The minute you humiliate people, you've lost them for life.