Amy Tan Quotes

My name is more important than myself.

I want my name back.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

All is lost save honor.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

Fire is more bearable than disgrace.

It's nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.

My name is all I have, so I don't want that to be messed up from a game of football.

I'm a human being and I'm a man, so don't disrespect me.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

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

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.