Self Respect And Love Quotes

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Look the world straight in the eye.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.