“Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.”

“There is nothing wrong with being beautiful. It is a basic right for a woman to look like that. It's just that they must know how to place their dignity and self-respect.”

Titon Rahmawan

“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”

Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”

George Sand Indiana

“The sense of mercy is found in all men; the sense of shame is found in all men; the sense of respect is found in all men; the sense of right and wrong is found in all men.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.”

Emily Post (1872–1960) American etiquette expert

“There is nothing like a broken heart to nourish your own sense of self”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.”

Ursula Goodenough (1943) American biologist