Self-respect Quotes

The reference of a man's self is, next to religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices. (Francis Bacon, 1561-1620)

Few man survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. (Helen Keller, 1880-1968)

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there. (Michael Korda, 1919-1973)

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. (Michel de Montagne, 1533-1592)

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other's backs and heads. (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900)

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. (Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768)

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