Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
I have just about all I can take of myself.
Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.