Self-Regard Quotes

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

The noble soul reveres itself

I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I have a lot of pride.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

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

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.