- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-Respect Quotes
Worth that never goes on sale.
These self-respect quotes start close to home, like a mother's tremendous pride in never accepting help from anyone, and extend into the courage to displease others by standing firm on your own convictions, real Status worth sharing.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.
- Few Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
- Good Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My self-respect is very dear to me.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020