Kelli O'Hara Quotes

But respect yourself most of all.

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.

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

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

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

Respect starts with ourselves.

Above all have respect for yourself.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Healthy respect for yourself.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

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.

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

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

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

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

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

[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.

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.