Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. Clint Eastwood
Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. H L Mencken
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham J Heschel
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. Joan Didion
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. T H Huxley
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. Emma Goldman