#self-respect

"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation."

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself."

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."

"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."

"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you."

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others."

"Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends."

"Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others."

"There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."

"APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -And I told you toFirst save yourselfFrom the world,And all the warsYou put yourselfThrough.APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem"

"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."

"An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need."