I Respect Myself Quotes

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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  Baltasar Gracian

  Respect   Self Esteem   Self Worth  

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

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  Fiona Apple

  Believe   Doing Me   Belive  

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• Every once in awhile, find a spot of shade, sit down on the grass or dirt, and ask yourself this question: “Do I respect myself?” A corollary to this question: “Do I respect the work I’m doing?” If the answer to the latter question is NO, then the answer to the former question will probably be NO too. If this is the case, wait a few weeks, then ask yourself the same two questions. If the answers are still NO, quit.

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  Ken Baumann

  Two   Waiting   Answers  

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• We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

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  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude   Home   People  

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• If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

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  Georges St-Pierre

  Ufc   Mma   Opponents  

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

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  Maya Angelou

  Respect   African American   Black Women  

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

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  Franz Grillparzer

  Respect   Self Respect   I Respect Myself  

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• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

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  Frederick Douglass

  Respect   Fear   Integrity  

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

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  Max Nordau

  Respect   Doe   Would Be  

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• I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

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  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order   Foolish   Made  

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hugo to Slick and Georges, Act 3, sc. 2, 1948.

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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

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  June Jordan

  Life   Happiness   Success  

  1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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