Women Self Respect Quotes

People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

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.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

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.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.