Self-Respect Quotes

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

Charlotte Brontë

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"Be educated, be organised and be agitated."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”

“Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words.”

“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.”

“It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.”

“I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values, and follow my own moral compass, then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.”

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”