700 Best Self Respect Quotes: Love Yourself First (2023)

1. “If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven’t, respect by others is a necessity.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2. “Morning is an important time of day because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”

3. “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”

4. “Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.”

5. “The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one’s self-respect by not participating in it.” — Fred Reed

6. “If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale.”

7. Character. the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life, is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion

8. “Don’t apologize for being yourself, but ask for an apology if they want you to be something else.”. . . Amit Kalantri

9. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

10. “Even if you're hungry, have some self-respect. Even if you're lonely, have some self-respect. Even if you're nothing, have some damn self-respect.”

11. “Not having to pretend simplifies our life. On the other hand, pretending day after day to be someone you are not, requires enormous effort.” – Piero Ferrucci

12. “What is truly ambitious is to face life and proceed with quiet confidence in spite of the distractions.” – Ryan Holiday

13. “Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.” — Robert Muller

14. “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – Haruki Murakami

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

16. “Humility is a knowledge of our weaknesses, confidence is a knowledge of our strengths, and ego is something dangerous with none of the former and a skewed sense of the latter.” – Ryan Holiday

17. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

18. “Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.”

19. “Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't.

20. “Accepting ourselves, okay I like such type of girls, I like watching porn, I like such kind of music, okay I like such kind off books like horror and sci-fi, I like deathstep as a music... It should be find I should accept myself people should accept me as the guy who I am truly, people should accept themselfs also.”

21. “Without love our self-esteem weakens. With out it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.” ~ Chief Dan George

22. “The greatest reward of success isn’t the money or acclaim; it’s the confidence and self-respect that success brings with it.”

23. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” ~Oprah Winfrey

24. “A person’s selection of a vocation is a crucial step with significant ramification relating to their degree of financial success, personal happiness, and sense of contributing the best part of themselves – their unique talent – to the community.”

25. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

26. “And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.” – Nayyirah Waheed

27. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

28. “All the filth in your mind that tells you that you aren’t worthy or good enough is the reason why you’re not experiencing self love in a healthy sense.” – Anonymous

29. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” ~ Alan Cohen

30. “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is, you will realize that a little loneliness goes a long way in creating a more vibrant you.” – Mandy Hale

31. “The choices that you have made have been because of what you believe to be true for yourselves.” – Oprah Winfrey

32. “If you don’t respect yourself, it’s pretty safe to say that no one else will respect you either.” — Remedy Murray

33. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor

34. “It took me a long time to love myself, years actually. With that being said, you either like me or you don’t. I have no time to try and convince anyone to value all that I am.” – Daniel Franzese

35. “Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.” – Adyashanti

36. “The most important key to the permanent enhancement of esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk”. ~ Dennis Waitley

37. “And when I reveal my true heart, not everyone is going to approve. What I know now is that I don’t need them to.” ~Alicia Keys

38. “Stand up for who you are. Respect yourself and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.” ― Amit Ray

39. “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” – Jodi Picoult

40. “The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.”

41. “You are good enough. You do deserve good things. You are smart enough. You are worthy of love and respect.” – Lorri Faye

42. “Some people don’t understand the importance of solitude. I don’t always want to be stimulated. I don’t always want noise. In fact, when I find my alone time, that’s when I find myself. Alone time helps me put myself first. It helps me reset life.” – S. McNutt

43. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie

44. “Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn't being confident; it is called being a doormat.”

45. “Who wouldn’t live in utter despair if their sense of self depended entirely on the opinions of others?” ― Marty Rubin

46. “This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person’s self-respect” ― Chris Bohjalian

47. “Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.”

48. “You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you.” – Ram Dass

49. “If you’re so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.”

50. “She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.”

51. “A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.”

52. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” ~ Brian Tracy

53. “Don’t put yourself down just to avoid criticism, to please others, or to show your ’kindness’. The world needs light, not mediocrity.” – Paulo Coelho

54. “Those with high self-esteem and self-knowledge take the plunge and trust. They realize life happens in the river, not the shore.” ― Maxime Lagacé

55. “Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.” – Robert Greene

56. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ~Roy T. Bennett

57. “Show kindness but never expect it. Show authenticity but never expect it. Only the wise are indifferent to things they can't control.”

58. “It’s hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing ‘right,’ which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.” ~ Melody Beattie

59. “Self love, self respect, self worth… there is a reason they all start with ‘self’. You can’t find them in anyone else.”– Dr. Anne Brown

60. “The most important form of respect is self-respect. Not only does it show others how to treat themselves, it teaches them how to treat you.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

61. “The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect, to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” – Pema Chödrön

62. “A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown.”

63. “Saying yes or maybe when we mean no, cheapens our word, diminishes our sense of self-respect, and compromises our integrity.” – Paulo Coelho

64. “Don’t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

65. “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.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

66. “It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.”

67. “Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.” ~ Jack Canfield

68. “The most admirable quality among people is when we pause and think of something to say, without ripping others to shreds (even if they deserved it).”

69. “To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.”

70. “If you don’t love yourself it’s tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.”. . Karen Salmansohn

71. “Quit wishing you were something different. There’s no mistakes. You’re not faulty. You have been fearfully and wonderfully made.” – Joel Osteen

72. “Once i have burnt the bridge, there is no going back. I wouldn't have let go if there was still something to hold onto, you see the thing is, very few act right but all expect you to stay.

73. “One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.” ~Marilyn Monroe

74. “Sometimes we use the value that someone else gives us to determine the worth of ourselves and wonder why we fall short. When we cease listening to our own soul, we give our power away.”

75. “Healthy self love means being gentle with the soul within you. To love oneself is the purest, bravest thing. Anybody in the entire world can experience self love. Just do the simple acts of love for yourself, and then your authentic self begins.” – Anonymous

76. “You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, ‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!” – John Keating

77. “You will never get the respect you deserve until you respect yourself first and demand respect from others by sticking up for yourself.” — Doug Kelley

78. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

79. “Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?”

80. “Nothing else falls into line when you’re cold to your own person. Everything else falls into line when you open your heart to yourself and stay true to your own person.” – Anonymous

81. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”~ Wayne Dyer

82. “If you don’t respect yourself, and if you do not value yourself, no one will, and people will run all over you.” — Amanda Waite

83. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

84. “Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.” – Mignon McLaughlin

85. “The more you honor and respect your time, the more other people will have to follow suit - and if they don't, then they do not deserve to take up room in your life. People are not allowed to make us feel bad for not rescuing them from their own situations.”

86. “When you stand up, speak up, and share your truth with kindness and compassion, you empower others to do the same. When you shine, your light illuminates everyone around you. Strengthening your confidence is a gift not only to yourself, but also to the world.” – Gabby Bernstein

87. “They who care the self-respect, their love is real and true, and they don’t break the trust and certainty of their beloved. Love cannot stay where is no self-respect.”. . Ehsan Sehgal

88. “It is okay to lobby for success. But it best to succeed like a royalty. Success from a position of self-respect and optimism beats success from a position of fear and insecurity anyday, anytime. The journey is also as important as the destination.”

89. “Why would you ever be excited to be with someone who is not excited to be with you? If they’re not happy with you now, what makes you think they’ll be happy to be with you later? Why do you make an effort to convince someone to date you when they make no effort to convince you?

90. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

91. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

92. “When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just part of someone else.” – Jean Culligan

93. “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” – Osho

94. “No self-respecting cat ever slept with a flock of birds,” she scolded. “Or ate worms, or flew, or did his laundry in Mrs. Doohiggy’s birdbath.”

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

96. “Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.” ~Bruce Lee

97. “I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to … you have to laugh, especially at yourself.” – Madonna

98. “The biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff

99. “Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.”

100. “Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company, not needing to use anyone as an escape.” – Samantha Camargo

101. “I always hear people talk about the benefits of positive thinking. But what they don't know is, while the terms benefits and beneficiaries are sometimes used interchangeably, it is important to understand that they are not the same thing. You have to become the benefit, not the beneficiary of positive thinking.

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

103. “But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.”

104. “To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

105. “You have time to do something you enjoy, even if “what you enjoy” is sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching Netflix.”

106. “It’s very hard to respect yourself when you give in to every temptation. If you want to build self-respect, build your willpower.”

107. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

108. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~Lucille Ball

109. When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.. John Gray

110. “We can discover truth for ourselves only when we do not depend on another; no specialist can give us the right answer.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

111. “But whatever happens, I've been happy. I've been loved. I've amazed crowds and drunk in their applause. Not because of luck or favor or magic. Because of will. My will. I've been willing to do whatever it takes. That's the closest thing I have to a secret. And now it's yours."

112. “It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” – Marcus Aurelius

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

114. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

115. “Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world”

116. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder

117. “This is someone who manipulated, lied, abused, and deeply hurt you. As you develop self-respect, you should come to understand that this is all more than enough reason to remove someone from your life—permanently.”

118. “Confidence isn’t thinking you are better than anyone else; it’s realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else.” –Maryam Hasnaa

119. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

120. “Don’t let a little stormy weather get you down, there is always sunshine on the other side.” ~Heather A. Stillufsen

121. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao-Tzu

122. “It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.” — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

124. “Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

125. “The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.” — Laura Schlessinger

126. “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”

127. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Eleanor Roosevelt

128. “(...) the day that I did not make Phi Beta Kappa nonetheless marked the end of something, and innocence may well be

129. “It is often said that I "misinterpret everything" but the truth is, I can interpret perfectly what is hidden with perfect diplomacy.”

130. “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

131. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you.” – Eartha Kitt

132. “The worst outcome in this world is not having self esteem. If you don’t love yourself, who will?” – Naval Ravikant

133. “It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.”

134. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” ~Marie Curie

135. “You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.” – Chris Evert

136. One's dignity may be assaulted...cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael J. Fox

137. “My worth is not tied to someone’s presence. My value comes from within. It is not at someone else’s mercy or charity. I honor and respect myself.
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138. If you don't love yourself nobody will. Not only that, you won't be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self. - Wayne Dyer

139. “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

140. “I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.” ~Oprah Winfrey

141. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It is only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the heart of others.” – Robin Sharma

142. “When everything gets awfully perfect I let my demons loose. Neither of us can't bear the thought of conforming with so little.”

143. “Neither I have golden Luck nor I could earn a hell of a lot of money. I also won't consider myself handsome, never had girls around me. I am hardly skilled in any domain in demand.

144. “Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.” ~ Harvey Mackay

145. “Replace the word ‘spend’ with ‘invest’ in your vocabulary and notice how it impacts your everyday decisions.” – Randy Thio

146. “You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.” ~Wayne Dyer

147. “The biggest success factor in life is self-esteem: believing you deserve it, believing you can do it and believing you will achieve it.” ~ Invajy

148. “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

149. “Only a genius might have foreseen such a turn; Bovai had a high opinion of his own skills and ability, but stopped short of considering himself a genius.”

150. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ~ Michael J. Fox

151. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

152. “Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.”

153. “I used to hate feeling embarrassed, but then I realized nobody’s watching and nobody gives a damn.” ~ Barbara Corcoran

154. “No one can perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” – John Joseph Powell

155. “We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves.”

156. “There is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love.” – Harry Palmer

157. “We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves.”. . Julie-Anne

158. “You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.”

159. “Everyone deserves to feel beautiful. It is your God-given right to look in the mirror and love what you see. Never mind the imperfections -we're all imperfect, after all. But people tend to get so caught up in what they are lacking, they forget to appreciate all that they have.”

160. “You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” ~Michelle Obama

161. “I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won’t be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.”

162. “But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.”

163. “Narcissism is not self-love. It's the opposite of that. It's a nagging horror that you are, deep down, unloveable. A narcissist needs the love, attention and admiration of others to survive because he or she cannot produce enough healthy self-respect to be at peace.”

164. “When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.”

165. “Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have.”

166. “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel

167. “Still your waters. If you're constantly busy, you can't learn about yourself. If you don't learn about yourself, how can you become peaceful?”

168. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

169. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” — Michael J. Fox

170. “When his regard for himself is so high that his own self-respect demands he follow the path of courage and conscience that all benefit. ”

171. “Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.” – Carla H. Krueger

172. If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

173. “Waiting for 'the right time to leave' can quickly go from months to years without you even noticing. Sometimes we procrastinate out of fear, but remember that the longer you stay, the harder it is to leave.”

174. “The people who trigger us to feel negative emotion are messengers. They are messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.” – Teal Swan

175. If you set out to cheat and deceive others you’ll be tense and anxious in case you’re found out. But if you live your life and conduct your business on the basis of truth and honesty, it gives you a sense of satisfaction and self-confidence that is also a source of inner strength. 14th Dalai Lama

176. “As you face loss, frustration, hurt, and conflict….have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion.” – Jack Kornfield

177. “Self-care is never a selfish act it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer

178. “When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.” – Christy Ann Martine

179. “Some of us are filled with a unique inner light. Others around us cease to exist because of it. The light opaques them. The outcome is, they will try everything in their power to tear it off, from you. Unless you accept their terms; to give up that uniqueness, forever.“

180. “This is my life… my story… my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make.” – Steve Maraboli

181. “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic selves and heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” – Dan Coppersmith

182. “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

183. “Your worth is not a product of your appearance, your intelligence, your talent or how successful are you.” ~ Invajy

184. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

185. “People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.” – Amit Kalantri

186. “If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.”

187. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” ~Kim McMillen

188. “Education attainment is a kind of achievement that nobody can seize from us as the assets we own in our regular lives because we earned it with the use of our own knowledge and creativity.”

189. “True self-care is not bath salts and chocolate cake, it’s making the choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Brianna Wiest

190. “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” – T. Harv Eker

191. “The right mental attitude will guide you towards feeling a sense of love that you deserve to experience.” – Anonymous

192. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin

193. Self-respect, self-worth and self-love all starts with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value. Rob Liano

194. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

195. “When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.”

196. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

197. “It is easiest to “be all things to all men,” but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.” — Abraham Lincoln

198. “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”

199. “Go where you are celebrated - not tolerated. If they can't see your true value and worth, then it's time for a new start.”

200. “Be you and only you. You came into this world alone and will leave alone. You just get the opportunity to have amazing company while you're here. Enjoy it everyday and remind yourself of this fact daily.”

201. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Decedents of the beautiful women that fought so hard for centuries to be equal and not objects of men's will, only their achievement to die in vain. As today's woman single desire is to be any men's object by any means on her part. Talk about irony...”

202. Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.. Thomas S. Monson

203. I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - Maya Angelou

204. “The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed.”

205. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

206. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”

207. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay

208. “You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.” – Robert Brault

209. “If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.” ― Vironika Tugaleva.

210. “The world needs strong women – women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will.” ~Amy Tenney

211. “Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man may clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.”

212. “True reassurance: not that one’s plans will inevitably work out, but that one’s human worth is not on the line if they don’t.” – Alain de Botton

213. “When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in”

214. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard Baruch

215. “One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” ~ Shiela Murray Bethel

216. “Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.” – Jack Nicklaus

217. “One’s self-image is very important because if that’s in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.” – John Gielgud

218. “Self-knowledge will bring you calm. With calm, you'll do the right thing. Sometimes, by doing the right thing, you'll push some people. Do it anyway.”

219. “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.”

220. “I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth... I must walk away. I owe it to myself... I owe it to my future.”

221. “One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.”

222. “When you discover something that nourishes your soul, care enough about yourself to make room for it.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen

223. “Western culture places great emphasis on being kind to our friends, family, and neighbors who are struggling. Not so when it comes to ourselves.”

224. To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

225. “The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain while maintaining a strong sense of self-respect. I obeyed his commands, sure that I could fulfill this role while still protecting the sacred place inside of me that I knew deserved more. Different. Better.

226. “But cooking yourself a meal,” Susan said, “and sitting down to eat it with the table set, and maybe a fire in the fireplace . . .”

227. “The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.” Viktor E. Frankl

228. “When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves, then true happiness sets in.” – Gabrielle Bernstein

229. You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will. Epictetus

230. “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

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

232. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen

233. “Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others

234. 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

235. “El ser humano (por general) es de un corto pensar, tarda en analizar, en comprender, se atan a respuestas que aunque ellos mismos saben que son absurdas las prefieren sobre las logicas. El ser humano (hombre como mujer) le teme a la verdad tanto como a lo desconosido.”

236. “Crying in public is like bleeding in public, they are both sad and equally messy. - On the Need of Self-restraint”

237. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success. none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you. Ram Dass

238. “These characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to do with happiness. It has more to do with a settling within oneself, a movement inward that makes them whole. Their reward is not happiness...what James's characters gain is self-respect.”

239. “Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?”

240. “Loving yourself isn’t the first step toward accomplishing anything. Many people have accomplished things and still find no peace with themselves. For them, any accomplishment will never be enough. But if you do love yourself, then any accomplishment is like icing on the cake.” – Thibaut

241. “Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.”

242. “The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something people with courage can do without.

243. “Be honest with who you are, what you want, and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.” ― Shannon L. Alder

244. “Avoid focusing on what you cannot do. Instead, focus on what you can do and accomplish without expecting approval and recognition from others.” ~ Lisa Lieberman-Wang

245. “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.”

246. “You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.” – Epictetus

247. “--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.”

248. “Most women learn the hard way never to let a man treat you like worn out old house slippers, only good for taking to bed or for comfort while he watches tv. If he wouldn't take you into the world, proudly, for everyone to see, he can do Netflix alone.”

249. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” – Norman Vincent Peale

250. “Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.”

251. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball

252. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein

253. “It's important to keep in mind that WE decide the value people have in our lives, which means we can significantly control how much they affect us. It also means we can decide on how much space they can take up in our minds.”

254. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ~ Shannon L. Alder

255. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”

256. “It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”

257. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s yourself.” – Aldous Leonard Huxley

258. “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” – Cyril Connolly

259. “Stoicism helps us keep a better ledger of what things are truly worth. It places the highest value on honesty, on self-respect, on tranquility and freedom and security.” – Ryan Holiday

260. “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

261. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

262. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anne Freud

263. “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” ― Joan Didion

264. “If you set out to cheat and deceive others you’ll be tense and anxious in case you’re found out. But if you live your life and conduct your business on the basis of truth and honesty, it gives you a sense of satisfaction and self-confidence that is also a source of inner strength.” – 14th Dalai Lama

265. “Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others.”

266. “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.” – Diane Arbus

267. “Fuck Yes or No applies to relationships as well. My wife used to work with a guy who got married because “it seemed like the right thing to do.”

268. “A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.”

269. “But what I've got to do if I'm to keep any self-respect at all," he thought, rising stiffly from the bench, while his teeth chattered, "is to accept my cowardice, take it all for granted, and think of myself as a nervous insignificant book-worm, who can't do anything but teach Latin and be petted by Miss Le Fleau!”

270. “What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.”

271. “As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drewn me down and away from myself.” – Charlie Chaplin

272. “Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.” — B. C. Forbes

273. “For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?”

274. “Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.” ~ David D. Burns

275. “He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

276. “You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.”

277. “If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”― Vironika Tugaleva

278. “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 light from within.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

279. “Sé que crees que te ama, y estoy segura de que lo hace. Pero no te ama de la manera correcta. No te ama de la manera en que mereces ser amada.”

280. “Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.” – Tene Edwards

281. “When old people talk too much in presence of younger persons, they wouldn't know when their value would be diminishing.

282. “To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves. there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” – Joan Didion

283. “I’m constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self. . . . How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us and how little to our very own!” – Marcus Aurelius

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

285. “I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.” ~ Jay Leno

286. “Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.” ― Shannon L. Alder

287. “When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.” – Rhonda Byrne

288. “The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself. The right person for you right now might be you.” – Mel Robbins

289. “I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.”

290. “Something special awaits you each day. All you need is to recognize it and make the most of it. Have a positive attitude throughout the day and then that today is going to be the best day of your life.”

291. “Love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, become the person you want to spend the rest of your life with.” – Neil Strauss

292. “Life is finite. (Duh.) Time is valuable. (Ditto.) And so am I. I’m valuable. I’m starting to treat myself as valuable.” ― Louie Anderson

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

294. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

295. “Maturity is learning to gracefully walk away from situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals, or self worth.”

296. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. That’s real power.”. Clint Eastwood

297. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

298. “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.” – Warsan Shire

299. “Happiness is found when we go with the flow of life, not when we rail against it, and self-compassion can help us navigate these turbulent rapids with a wise, accepting heart.”

300. “People who love themselves come across as very loving, they express their self-confidence through humility and forgiveness.” – Sanaya Roman

301. “When you do something beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

302. “When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence, people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.” ― Stasi Eldredge

303. “Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.”

304. “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

305. “Some people treat you like they don’t know your value. Make sure your response doesn’t support the lie.” – Thema Bryant-Davis

306. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius

307. “Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don't live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams.”

308. “Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something … hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” – Roger Staubach

309. “Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.”

310. Deal with yourself as an individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. Nikki Giovanni

311. “No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.” ~ Martha Beck

312. “What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.”. . . C. Joybell C.

313. “Self-respect means valuing all levels of yourself from the soul, mind, and body. You know you’ve made mistakes at times and you’ve owned up to them. You have dignity and integrity. You’re honest in your dealings with others.” — Kevin Hunter

314. “I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen them before) would take a picture of the whole Mr. Johnson back to Little Rock.

315. “I often leave... You see, I'm not angry nor hold grouches at what they do. It makes me angry that they would get mad if I did what they do.”

316. “I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.”

317. “To offer yourself heaven is to love yourself right now, exactly as you are. Avoid waiting until your death. Those who wait currently perish. Alan Cohen: “If you love, you live now.”

318. “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” ~Amelia Earhart

319. “Self-care is never a selfish act–it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” — Parker Palmer

320. “I’ve learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth… I must walk away. I owe it to myself… I owe it to my future.” – Steve Maraboli

321. “Self-love, self-respect, self-worth….there is a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You cannot find them in anyone else.” – Liz

322. “If we saw someone else treating us the way most of us treat ourselves, we might think them despicably cruel.” – Alain de Botton

323. “I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of yourself?” ― Jaye Robin Brown

324. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ~Norman Vincent Peale

325. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise L. Hay

326. “Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered–just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” – Barrie Davenport

327. “The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are that they should be living for.” – Joseph Campbell

328. “I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.”

329. “Self-love, self-respect, self-worth….there is a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You cannot find them in anyone else.” — Liz

330. “Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs -- don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.”

331. “Life is finite. (Duh.) Time is valuable. (Ditto.) And so am I. I'm valuable. I'm starting to treat myself as valuable.”

332. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

333. “Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us… Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.” ~ Nathaniel Branden

334. “When you are compassionate toward yourself, you allow yourself to be vulnerable. And that’s incredibly important. Your authentic truth is your magnificence. Your willingness to let the world see you in truth is your greatest contribution.” – Gabby Bernstein

335. “Remember, your self-esteem will increase as you learn to appreciate yourself more and more. The first step is to love oneself. The world will only follow after that.

336. “The very things you cannot bring yourself to consider reveal the lies you have let yourself believe.” – James Pierce

337. “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”

338. “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”

339. “Divorce and separation, is the realization that, one of the two, no longer is growing his or her way to prosperity, next to that other person.”

340. It’s all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There’s no such thing as a perfect woman, I like imperfections. . that’s what makes you unique.

341. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

342. “The characteristics of healthy boundaries include self-respect; non-tolerance of abuse or disrespect; responsibility for exploring and nurturing personal potential; two-way communication of wants, needs, and feelings; expectations of reciprocity; and sharing responsibility and power.”

343. “When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!”

344. “Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.”

345. “Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.” — Julia Cameron

346. We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.. Ryan Holiday

347. “It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.”

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

349. “The most admirable quality among people is when we pause, and think of something to say, without ripping others to shreds (even if they deserved it).”

350. “The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat and loss, and have found their way out. These persons have an understanding of life. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

351. “I didn’t mind because I had my own boxes —beautiful boxes that I’d imagined, created, and designed. My boxes were full of endless possibilities! ”

352. “The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.” — Richard G. Scott

353. “But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

354. “Among your farewells, see you soon, now I have no time and stormy silences, I met someone....that someone, is me.”

355. “If you're not careful, you will identify yourself through the eyes of those who don't see you how you see yourself. This is the importance of self love, the path to knowing yourself so deeply that it's almost laughable when someones tries to tell you who you are or who yoh should be.”

356. “If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.”

357. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~Louise L. Hay

358. 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. Fyodor Dostoevsky

359. I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. Michel de Montaigne

360. “With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.”

361. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou

362. “Worship is a sixth sense of a (believer) to serve, respect, honor, do the word of your master, with faithfulness, commitment, sacrifice, obedience, and self-drive.” – Clous

363. “Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.”

364. Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

365. “Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. .” – Cicero

366. “The real difficulty in self love is combating the inner critic who goes against our own wishes by challenging our own beliefs. You know you’re worthy of love, but the critic keeps reminding you of the past pain that you can’t let go of.” – Anonymous

367. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” – Charlotte Bronte

368. “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” – Jennifer Elisabeth

369. “If it wasn’t for the series of events we went through during our journey, life would be a lot different, so be happy. These events molded you into the wonderful, confident, respectful person you are today.”

370. “Psychologists say it takes at least SEVEN positivisms to cancel out ONE negativism. The constant criticism of the child results in damaged self-worth.”

371. “If you wanna be liked, your only option is to never speak. Otherwise, get used to being hated.” – Preethi Kasireddy

372. “Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.”

373. “At every turn, girls - even the most carefully raised and deeply loved - are surrounded by a popular culture that exhorts them to think of themselves as sexually disposable creatures.”

374. “The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, and it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” – Orison Swett Marden

375. “We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.”

376. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

377. “If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven’t, respect by others is a necessity.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

378. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” — Brian Andreas

379. “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

380. “I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.” – Erin Van Vuren

381. “Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.” ~ Halle Berry

382. “Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.”

383. “They who care the self-respect, their love is real and true, and they don't break the trust and certainty of their beloved. Love cannot stay where is no self-respect.”

384. “As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering were only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.”

385. “Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.”

386. “A man with self-confidence has a natural smile on his face, sense in his mind, and strength in his hands.” ― Amit Kalantri

387. “People have to pretend you’re a bad person so they don’t feel guilty about the things they did to you.” – Unknown

388. “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.”

389. “You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.”

390. Confidence isn’t walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else. It’s walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone else in the first place.

391. “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

392. I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?. Shailene Woodley

393. “Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. ” ~ Oprah Winfrey

394. “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

395. “There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.” — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

396. “You have to have self-respect and faith in yourself to cultivate the courage to commit to your endeavours even when no one, including family members, is by your side and neutralizing the negative influences in your life.”

397. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox

398. “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

399. “Either they like you or they don’t. Never try to convince somebody of your worth. If a person doesn’t appreciate you, they don’t deserve you. Respect yourself and be with people who truly value ‘you.’” – Brigitte Nicole

400. “While we are still alive, we have to discover ourselves, understand ourselves, and express ourselves.” – Bruce Lee

401. “The beauty of self-compassion is that instead of replacing negative feelings with positive ones, new positive emotions are generated by embracing the negative ones.”

402. “Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.” ~ Grace Jones

403. “Every time you forgive someone for a serious wrong, they may begin to love you a little more, but you'll begin loving them a little less. On the very day when they love you the most, you may not feel anything for them at all.”

404. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor

405. “I kindly ask you to place your name in 1 Corinthians 13:4-6. And read it out loud. This verse will help you reflect on your own behavior, to become the right type of person for yourself and others.”

406. “Are you kidding me? This is an issue that you need to consider according to your own principles rather than specific rules.”

407. “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

408. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

409. “High self-confidence is a positive internal dialogue. This is what most strive for. Perfect self-confidence is the complete absence of internal dialogue. Puzzlingly few people are interested in this.” – James Pierce

410. “The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

411. “Its too hard to make a Lion Angry... He really doesn't care what others do around him... but if you do hurt His PRIDE... He wont let you live another Day”

412. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – e. e. cummings

413. “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.”

414. Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters. Dan Coppersmith

415. “The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.” – Jerry Gillies

416. “You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being – not because anybody says so, not because you’re successful, not because you make a lot of money – but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.” ~Wayne Dyer

417. “Those with high self-esteem and self-knowledge take the plunge and trust. They realize life happens in the river, not the shore.”

418. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.” ― Robert Tew

419. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brene Brown

420. “Build yourself first before you sell anything; for anybody, or any company else. Your brand matters most than any other companies, or personalities out there.”

421. “I found peace of mind when I walked away from small fights not worth fighting. I stopped fighting for people who gossiped about me. I stopped fighting for those who didn't respect me. I quit worrying about those who wouldn't value me for being me.”

422. “Self–worth is so vital to your happiness if you don’t feel good about yourself, it’s hard to feel good about anything else.”

423. If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven’t, respect by others is a necessity.

424. “You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illuminate your way.”

425. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud ‘I am lucky to be what I am.’” – Dr. Seuss

426. “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you, your real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.” ~Shannon L. Alder

427. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

428. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

429. “We should wash our destiny the way we wash our body, and change life the way we change clothes – not to preserve life, as when we eat and sleep, but out of objective respect for ourselves, which is what personal hygiene is all about.”

430. “Take your self-respect with you where ever you go and hold onto it tightly. There are many who are just waiting for you to leave it up for grabs.” ― Christine E. Szymanski

431. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”

432. “Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.”

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

434. Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Heschel

435. “The whorl of love, self-awareness, and self-assurance form the flex of an energetic mind, which combined force allows an ordinary person to transcend the kryptonite that combusts their deepest fears.”

436. “Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, and magical person that you are.” – Unknown

437. “We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.”

438. “Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.” – Hussein Nishah

439. “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

440. “My heart is not a toy thing, you cannot just come and go. Choose quickly, or I’ll choose for you - I have learnt much about eating alone.”

441. “I avoid and ignore such opportunities, which cannot match, and qualify my frame of thoughts since I am not an opportunist. I follow standard, quality, and self-respect.”

442. Don’t put yourself down just to avoid criticism, to please others, or to show your “kindness”. The world needs light, not mediocrity. Paulo Coelho

443. “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln

444. “Determination, courage, self-confidence lead to success, but we should always remain humble, modest and unpretentious.” – 14th Dalai Lama

445. “Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.”

446. “God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level they are all equal”

447. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” ~ Dr. Roopleen

448. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

449. “Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?”

450. “From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.”

451. Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you’re doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

452. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

453. Be not the slave of your own past. plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson

454. “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” – Lou Holtz

455. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ― Roy T. Bennet

456. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

457. “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

458. “An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair”

459. “If we lose our love and self-respect and respect for each other, this is how we will finally die.” – Maya Angelou

460. “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

461. “Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.”

462. “Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's”

463. “Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.”

464. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ~Lao Tzu

465. “Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no” but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary.” ― Jessica Moore

466. “Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.”

467. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” – Brian Andreas

468. “It is the highest form of self respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.” – Dale Turner

469. “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” ― Thucydides

470. “You don’t get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.”

471. “CREDIBILITY is about MANAGING COMMITMENTS. It is about having SELF-RESPECT enough to FOLLOW-THROUGH on your decisions, commitments and destiny. It is the ULTIMATE PRICE for GREATNESS”

472. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

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

474. “Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”

475. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe

476. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer

477. 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

478. “Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.”

479. “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” – Marcus Aurelius

480. “Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you.”

481. “Amidst cruelty arrogance has its role, but you gotta tread with extreme caution. Arrogance laid on the wrong person is an appalling human rights violation.”

482. “Excuses will hide the truth, protect the ego, kill the attitude, amplify the anger, vandalize the relationships and sabotage your self-respect.”

483. “Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.”

484. “I tried really hard not to find it romantic or tragic or anything like that because I knew that's exactly what he wanted. He can't charm me with his weirdness anymore.”

485. “Always be yourself–express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee

486. “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” ~ Dr. Robert Anthony

487. “Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.”

488. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

489. “How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.”

490. Whatever you are doing, love youreself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it. - Thaddeus Golas

491. “This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect”

492. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” ~Marie Curie

493. “When he would hear me speak in ways that were judgmental or indicated my wish to get rid of some part of me, he would gently say, 'A more respectful word may want to emerge soon' ...

494. “Sometimes you will need people to support you and they won’t be available, not because they don’t care but because they’re the main character of their own life, not just the supporting character in yours.” – kesiawrites

495. He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

496. “The most important form of respect is self-respect. Not only does it show others how to treat themselves, it teaches them how to treat you.”

497. “Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.” — Thomas S. Monson

498. “Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.” ~Taylor Swift

499. “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man…true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu Proverb

500. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” – Clint Eastwood

501. “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

502. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ― Charlotte Brontë

503. “Self-worth is only determined by you and if you don’t thing you worth it, that’s going to ruin everything.” – Billie Eilish

504. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath

505. “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

506. “I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.”

507. “The savior complex manifests differently for everyone, but for the most part it's a form of self-sabotage hidden in helping someone else...

508. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self 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.” – Golda Meir

509. “No tree tries to become a certain kind of tree. Commit to nourishing yourself, you will bloom into whatever kind of person you are.” – Vironika Tugaleva

510. “The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.”

511. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first, I chose to love myself.” – Queen Latifah

512. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

513. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball

514. “To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves. . . there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” — Joan Didion

515. “Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty… It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.” – Shannon L. Alder

516. “I can’t control your behavior, nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated, I have standards, step up or step out.” – Steve Maraboli

517. To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves. there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion

518. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~ Dr. Seuss

519. “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” – George Washington

520. “Be vulnerable. Let yourself be deeply seen, love with your whole heart, practice gratitude and joy… be able to say ‘I am thankful to feel this vulnerable because it means I am alive,’ and believe ‘I am enough.’ You are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown

521. “Compulsively saying "Sorry" is often a reflection of wanting to apologize for our very existence. I used to say the word 'sorry' when there was no need for me to do so. It became a habit and reflected my chronic toxic shame, low self-worth and low self-esteem.”

522. “We have to many people claiming to be selfless but their love chokes everyone around them. How can you love people when you have not tested what you are offering on yourself."

523. “You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.”

524. “I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.” — Little Milton

525. “By the time I graduated, I knew that the confidence I'd managed to develop didn't come from a perfect family or God-given talent. It came from personal accountability, which brought me self-respect, and self-respect will always light a way forward”

526. “Do I do anything to change myself? You don’t have to do anything. The more you do, the worse it gets. All you have to do is understand.” – Anthony de Mello

527. “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

528. “Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.” – Taizan Maezumi

529. “Do not be scared to say “I love you” to yourself. Stand in front of the mirror and look at yourself and say to yourself as loudly as you can “I love you. I respect you for what you have faced in life. And I love you for what you have become.” ― Avijeet Das

530. “The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves.” – Alain de Botton

531. “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” ~Michelle Obama

532. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” ~Queen Latifah

533. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” — Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

534. “When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.”

535. “The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible — and greater as you draw near.” – Seneca

536. “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respect to your own journey.” ~Sylvester McNutt

537. “Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.” ― Marty Rubin

538. “If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.” ~ Deborra-Lee Furness

539. “People learn how to treat us based on how they see us treating ourselves. If I don't put value on my work or my time, neither will the person I'm helping. Boundaries are a function of self respect and self love.”

540. Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. Robert Tew

541. “People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.” – Jack Canfield

542. “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.” – Nathaniel Branden

543. “Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.” — J. K. Rowling

544. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

545. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”

546. “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” – Thucydides

547. “Self-care is never a selfish act–it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” ~Parker Palmer

548. “Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.”

549. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” ~Anna Taylor

550. “Love and respect are what we should also teach our children, but the only way to teach them love and respect is to love and respect ourselves.” — Don Miguel Ruiz

551. “In time, I was able to learn that as long as I could respect and love myself, I wouldn't settle for less from others.”

552. “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer

553. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

554. “Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You’re responsible for your own happiness. Anyone who wants you to live in misery for their happiness should not be in your life anyway.”

555. “Don’t blame your parents, don’t blame your boyfriend, don’t blame the weather. Accept the reality, embrace the challenge, and deal with it. Be in charge of your own life. Turn negatives into positives and be proud to be a woman.” ~Diane Von Furstenberg

556. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” — Andrew Matthews

557. “A world full of people with an empowered self-image will also have an improved image of the world and their connection to it.”

558. “Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.”

559. “Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.”

560. “Until you get comfortable being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” – Mandy Hales

561. “Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction”

562. “But the problem is if you accept yourself the way you are at the age of 16 what the hell are you going to do in the next 60 years?”

563. “Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.”

564. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis

565. “You will never gain anyone’s approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.” ~Mandy Hale

566. Loving yourself isn’t the first step toward accomplishing anything. Many people have accomplished things and still find no peace with themselves. For them, any accomplishment will never be enough. But if you do love yourself, then any accomplishment is like icing on the cake. Thibaut

567. “Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man may clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.” ― Samuel Smiles

568. “I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.” ~ Tom Petty

569. “‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? Talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself.” – Victoria Moran

570. “I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.”

571. “When you establish peace, when you etablish love, when you establish kindness here [inside], you cannot act any other way to the outside world.”

572. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ~Maya Angelou

573. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, but you also must be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

574. “Every great leader has both the qualities of pride and humility, they respect others out of their humility, and they show us the way forward out of their self-respect.

575. “As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know this is ‘authenticity.’” – Charlie Chaplin

576. I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.. Maya Angelou

577. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.” – Robert Tew

578. “The more you know and respect yourself, the less you fear rejection, setbacks and failure. The more inner power you gain, the less outer control you allow.” — Gordana Biernat

579. “Know that the pain you have endured does not define you to me. What defines you to me is the way you talk about love, especially loving yourself. 'I have learned to love everything about me,' you wrote. You are powerful.”

580. “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

581. “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

582. “Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless.”

583. “What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.” – C. Joybell C

584. “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

585. “When you don’t respect yourself, you act as if you don’t have value. When you allow others to mistreat you, you send a message that you have little worth.” — Karla Downing

586. “Loving ourselves points us to capacities of resilience, compassion, and understanding within that are simply part of being alive.”

587. “Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, and experiencing the power this brings.” – Robert Greene

588. “I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.”

589. “Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.” ~Iyanla Vanzant

590. “Other people’s opinion of you, whether it’s good or bad, should not be grounds in which you base your self worth. Your value is inherent within you. What matters the most is whether you know you are worthy.” – Ash Alves

591. “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” – Robert Anthony

592. “I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?”

593. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content without oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu

594. “Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.” — William Godwin

595. “The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” – Thomas Huxely

596. “Don’t compare your life to others, there’s no comparison between the sun and the moon, they both shine when it’s their time.” – Unknown

597. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

598. “Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect but for respect from others.” – Barry Bonds

599. “In every aspect of life, be true to who you are. There is no need to communicate subliminally. If you believe in your words or actions, then express yourself completely. Live, Laugh, & Love without regrets.”

600. “Shout out to all the people who haven’t felt okay recently, but are getting up every day and refusing to quit. Stay strong.” – Unknown

601. “When you love and respect yourself, there is no way that you ever allow anybody to disrespect you or dishonor you.” — Don Miguel Ruiz

602. “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” – E.E. Cummings

603. “Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi

604. “Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.”

605. “Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect but for respect from others.” — Barry Bonds

606. “Don't ever apologize for having a soft heart, nor allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart, all you are doing is being courageous, remember that.”

607. Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself that's when you're most beautiful. - Zoé Kravitz

608. “Unaruhusiwa kutokubaliana na wengine, sema maoni yako kwa heshima lakini usiwe na kimwili au vurugu. Mbinu hii inatufanya tofauti na wanyama! Kwa hiyo ustaarabu, sikiliza kile wengine wanachosema lakini uepuka athari za magoti. Ingekuokoa kutoka kwa majuto mengi!”

609. Saying yes or maybe when we mean no, cheapens our word, diminishes our sense of self-respect, and compromises our integrity.

610. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss

611. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

612. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

613. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” ~T. Harv Eker

614. “Self-respect comes from a knowledge of self which makes you see yourself as \you are, then you can expect from yourself what you should.” — Louis Farrakhan

615. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. Clint Eastwood

616. “You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”~ Louise Hay

617. “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” – Joan Didion

618. “Everything and anything we communicate to others, communicates to them, how to see us and treat us.” ― Miya Yamanouchi

619. “The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” – Joan Didion

620. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar

621. “They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else’s dream and start living your own.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

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

623. “People treat you the way you treat yourself. So, when you humiliate yourself, they make sure you get the same treatment.”

624. “Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.” ~ Drew Pinsky

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

626. “Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. -Respect yourself by respecting others.”

627. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

628. “The trauma recovery with a narcissistic mother (or father) is not an easy one. There may be bumps in the road. You may have grown up feeling rejected, ostracized, or condemned. You may have moments when your inner critic screamed awful words to you.

629. “Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”

630. “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

631. “Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.”

632. “As I began to love myself I understood that I am in the right place at the right time. I call it ‘self-confidence’.” – Charlie Chaplin

633. Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson

634. “If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.” – Vironika Tugaleva

635. “Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no”, but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary.”

636. “The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” ― Thomas Huxley

637. “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” ― Marcus Aurelius

638. “If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world.”

639. “But self-kindness involves more than merely stopping self-judgment. It involves actively comforting ourselves, responding just as we would to a dear friend in need.”

640. “He had held onto his self-respect, he dreamed grand dreams, and he could work well at any task he turned his hand to.”

641. “Make a choice: Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it.” – Meghan Markle

642. If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.. Max Nordau

643. “Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.” — Marcus Aurelius

644. “Sometimes you have to try not to care, no matter how much you do, because sometimes you can mean nothing to someone who means so much to you. It’s not pride, it is self- respect.”

645. Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

646. “When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.”

647. “By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.” – Steve Maraboli

648. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~Anonymous

649. “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – The Dalai Lama

650. “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.” – William J. H. Boetcker

651. “If we can respect the divine within us, if we can treat it with dignity, then we can respect others around us.” – Vishwas Chavan

652. “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.”

653. “When we dim our light we don’t do anyone a favor. It’s a disservice because when you’re in the presence of someone who knows his or her worth, like the extraordinary Maya did, you want to shine brighter. Self-honoring energy is contagious.” ~Alicia Keys

654. “I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

655. “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.” ― Charlotte Brontë

656. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

657. When someone treats you like an option, help them narrow their choices by removing yourself from the equation. It’s that simple.

658. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

659. “The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”

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

661. “When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just a part of someone else.” – Jean Culligan

662. “The best gift you can give to others is your presence. The best gift you can give to yourself is perseverance.” ― Maxime Lagacé

663. People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

664. “Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. I accept all the great things about me.” – C. JoyBell C

665. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” – Cicero

666. Loving yourself starts with liking yourself, which starts with respecting yourself, which starts with thinking of yourself in positive ways. - Jerry Corsten

667. “Don’t rely on someone else for your self-worth. Accept who you are, not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter

668. “Self-kindness is self-empathy. And even when I talk to myself like someone I love and it feels weird, it works.” – Brene Brown

669. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” ~Anne Freud

670. “Everyone one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Diana, Princess of Wales

671. “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” ~Wayne Gerard Trotman

672. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh

673. “Some people will label you as vindictive, unforgiving or even evil for not allowing them to hurt you, yet again.”

674. “Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.” — Denis Waitley

675. “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”

676. “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.” – Michel de Montaigne

677. “You give numerous second chances to the undeserved, but start judging yourself in your very first legitimate failure. Why such discrimination?”

678. “Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.” – Wilfred Peterson

679. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, cares enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen

680. “If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.”

681. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews

682. “The Law of Fuck Yes or No states that when you want to get involved with someone new, in whatever capacity, they must inspire you to say “Fuck Yes” in order for you to proceed with them.

683. “You should love others in the same measure as you love yourself—as if your neighbor were your very self.” – Lawrence G. Lovasick

684. “Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. When you harass or vilify someone, you not only disrespect them, but yourself also.

685. “Every time you forgive someone for a serious wrong, they may begin to love you a little more; but you'll begin loving them a little less. On the very day when they love you the most, you may not feel anything for them at all.”

686. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a**holes.” ~ Sigmund Freud

687. “No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me.” – Michelle D’Avella

688. “When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.” – Jean Vanier

689. “I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don’t have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.” ~Gal Gadot

690. “Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves; those delusions keep their day running.”

691. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!” ~Maya Angelou

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

693. “When I extend small kindness to others, I find it easier to like myself. If you feel that your self-esteem is low, try extending small kindness to strangers.” ~ Haemin Sunim

694. Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept. - Ann Taylor

695. “Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself.”

696. “Selflove is connected with self-acceptance and self-caring; it is a Healing Journey to find your happiness and yourself.”

697. “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey Jr.

698. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” ~Lucille Ball

699. “Si Ryle en verdad te amara, no permitiría que lo aceptarás de nuevo. Tomaría la decisión de dejarte él mismo para saber por defecto que no podrá volver a lastimarte. Ese es la clase de amor que merece una mujer, Lily.”

700. “When you love yourself, there’s no such thing as low self esteem. Establish true self esteem to experience the best kind of love with yourself.” – Anonymous