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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect
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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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    Toni Morrison
    “You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: emotion, love, self-respect, value
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    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “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.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: acceptance, beginnings, boundaries, break-ups, breaking-up, challenges, change, confidence, dignity, divorce, empowerment, inspiration, letting-go, life, marriage, moving-on, pride, relationships, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, trials, women
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  • #8
    Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
    “Dare to love yourself
    as if you were a rainbow
    with gold at both ends.”
    ― Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: angel-poems, classic-books, classic-quotes, creative-vision, famous-quotes, gold, grace, haiku, haikus, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring-authors, inspiring-words, joy, love, national-poetry-month, personal-growth, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, positive-motivation, psychotherapy, rainbow, rainbows, self-esteem, self-love, self-motivation, self-respect, spirituality
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: alone, blending-in, bravery, choices, confidence, conformity, courage, different, diversity, empowerment, fake, false, hiding, integrity, personality, regret, regrets, remorse, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-up-for-other-women, true-self, uniqueness
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    Joan Didion
    “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
    ― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect
    tags: character, life, responsibility, self-respect
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    Jack Kornfield
    “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
    ― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
    tags: compassion, self-respect
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    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    “Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
    with the ability to say no to oneself.”
    ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
    tags: dignity, discipline, inspirational, self-respect
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    Adrienne Rich
    “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
    tags: critical-thinking, empowerment, feminism, independent-thought, responsibility, self-determination, self-respect, women
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  • #14
    Thucydides
    “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: courage, discipline, self-control, self-respect
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  • #15
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
    tags: loss, respect, self-respect
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  • #16
    Ayn Rand
    “It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: charity, competence, nobility, self-respect, virtue
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: abuse, blaming, bullied, cheated-on, choices, daughter-of-god, dumped, embarrassed, emotional-abuse, games, hated, humiliated, hurt, hurting-you, ignored, lack-of-respect, lied-to, lies, not-good-enough, not-nice, not-pretty, options, overlooked, physical-abuse, self-centeredness, self-esteem, self-respect, sexual-abuse, sons-of-god, taken-for-granted, tortured, verbal-abuse, women-empowerment
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  • #18
    C. JoyBell C.
    “People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: education-knowledge, life, life-and-living, living, living-life, opinions, people, protection, respect, self-defense, self-respect, venom
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  • #19
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: fidelity, honesty, self-respect
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  • #20
    Sherry Argov
    “That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.”
    ― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
    tags: happiness, love, relationship, self-respect
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  • #21
    George Sand
    “Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
    ― George Sand, Indiana
    tags: self-respect, selfishness
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  • #22
    Rob Liano
    “If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
    If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
    You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.

    Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!”
    ― Rob Liano
    tags: deserving, desires, gaols, life, life-lessons, light, live, love, motivation, needs, objectives, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, settling, value, wants
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assertiveness, authenticity, being-yourself, brainwashed, confidence, courage, differing-perspectives, expressing-yourself, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, independence, individualism, peer-pressure, personalities, perspectives, reality, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-out, stayingpositiveu-com, unique
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adventures, attitude, chasing, choices, class, competition, confidence, crossroads, dating, dignity, disconnecting, experiences, finding-happiness, freedom, goals, humility, journeys, joy, knowing-your-worth, lessons, letting-go, marriage, men, move-on, one-path, paths, positive-attitude, pride, quality, relationships, respect, right-path, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, strong-women, tests, the-future, understanding, unrequited-love, validation, value, warrior-women, white-path, winning, women, women-empowerment, your-worth
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    Amaka Imani Nkosazana
    “When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
    ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
    tags: admiration, affirmations, afterlife, attitude, awake, awakening, blessings, confirmation, corruption, courage, curiosity, dedication, destiny, divine-guidance, dreams, earth, evil-people, expression, faithfulness, fate, feelings, finding-yourself, forget, forgiveness, freedom, friends, gifts, god, godliness, guidance, happiness, hate, haters, hatred, heart, heaven, holy, holy-spirit, honesty, imagination, independent, inspiration, inspire, journey, joy, kindness, knowledge, liars, life, life-lessons, living, love, loving-you, loving-yourself, lying, lying-to-yourself, motivation, motivational-quotes, optimistic, passion, peace, peace-of-mind, peaceful, peacemaker, people, philosophy, positive-thinking, power, power-of-words, quotes, self-respect, soul-searching, spiritual, spirituality, success, thankfulness, trash, treasure, trust, trusting-god, trustworthy, truth, value, vision, wisdom, words-to-live-by, worth
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    Thomas Mann
    “There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”
    ― Thomas Mann
    tags: self-respect
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  • #27
    “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
    ― Robert Tew
    tags: self-respect
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, deserving-respect, divorce, ending-relationships, finding-joy, finding-peace, freedom, great-value, growth, happiness, hell, journeys, joy, knowing-your-worth, letting-go, moving-on, pain, painful-situations, putting-up, respect, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-help, self-imposed, self-imposed-pain, self-realization, self-respect, self-worth, struggles, too-little, too-long, value, walking, worth, worthiness
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  • #29
    Joan Didion
    “There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.”
    ― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
    tags: eden, peace, privacy, reconciliation, self-respect
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    Amit Kalantri
    “All my problems bow before my stubbornness.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: bow, confidence, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, problem-solving, problems, respect, respectable, respected, respectful, respecting, respecting-others, respecting-yourself, self-respect, stubborn, stubborness, stubbornly, stubbornness, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
    69 likes



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