Respect for Oneself Quotes

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

No dignity without distance.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

I'd need a good reason to drop my pants

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.

There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.