Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

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.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I'm in the dirt or I'm picked up and dusted off.

You've gotta stay true to yourself, stay who you are.

My mom taught me to respect myself, and to question anyone who would ask me to sacrifice my integrity.

I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

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

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.