Top 25 Self-respect & Self-esteem Quotes - Great Quotes

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

– Buddha

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”

– M. Scott Peck

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”

– Brigham Young

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”

– Denis Waitley

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

– Elizabeth Gaskell

“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

– Louise L. Hay

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

– Andre Gide

“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

– Johnny Depp

“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”

– Wayne Dyer

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

– Bob Moawad

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”

– Sally Field

“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”

– Sidney J. Harris

Self-respect Quotes By Anonymous

Never beg for a relationship. Be brave to accept the one who really wants to be with you and reject the one who just pretends to be with you.

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.

Before loving someone, make sure you’re loving yourself enough and treating yourself with respect before others.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.