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I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
Sonia Sotomayor
I am not governed by the opinions of others nor do I gauge my value through their standards.
2.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
Toni Morrison
Entreat no one for anything, particularly affection.
4.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
5.
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides
8.
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
Raymond Charles Barker
9.
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
Herbie Hancock
10.
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
Robert Downey, Jr.
12.
When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
Tae Yun Kim
13.
I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
Little Milton
14.
When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.
Demi Lovato
16.
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
Samuel Smiles
17.
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
Thomas Szasz
18.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
20.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
John Milton
22.
You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!
Queen Latifah
24.
Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.
Kevin James
25.
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
Jack Canfield
26.
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
27.
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
Jack Canfield
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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier
29.
But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth
Rozz Williams
31.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
32.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
Oscar Wilde
35.
Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.
Melissa Etheridge
36.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry Gibb
37.
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
Mark Twain
38.
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
Eric Hoffer
39.
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
Charles Peguy
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I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.
Muhammad Ali
42.
Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
44.
True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
Naoki Higashida
45.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
George Sand
46.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
48.
I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
Florynce Kennedy
49.
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
Richard Bach
50.
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
Madeleine de Scudery