Self-Respect
“Self-respect, self-worth, and self-love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.”- Rob Liano
According to the Miriam Webster Dictionary, self-respect is defined as "a proper respect for oneself as a human being." My definition of self-respect is simple: value yourself. Value yourself enough to walk away from something that no longer serves you. Self-respect is one of the most important traits people in all age groups should have. When you respect yourself, you feel confident and worthy of things that you will work hard for. You know you deserve good things even if someone is telling you that you don’t. It’s knowing when something or someone isn’t right for you. Having self-respect is having the courage to say no when you want to, or to stick up for yourself when you need to.
I believe self-respect should be taught to children as soon as we’re old enough to talk. We need a strong foundation to help us deal with problems. I was raised by a single mother who taught my sister and I how to understand what we don’t deserve, and how to stick up for ourselves. She taught us this by ignoring what people would say about single mothers, and proving hateful people wrong by giving us a good life. Kids learn how to respect themselves through the things they hear their parents say or by the things they do. That’s how they learn what’s right and wrong. They see the things their parents tolerated or what they didn’t allow. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to be grown up in a loving home. If they saw their mom get abused by their dad and nothing was said about it, why would they say something if it happened to them? How are kids supposed to know that their friends aren’t really their friends if they constantly put them down, if their mom did the same thing to them? Or that, that boy doesn’t really love you if he doesn’t know what the word “no” means, if no one told them that when they we’re growing up?
You can’t respect yourself until you learn how to love yourself. When we’re young, we’re taught to be nice to strangers and to tell our family and friends we love them, so why don’t we do this to ourselves? How can we look in the mirror and think nasty things, then expect
Self-respect is gained by your own cognitive action; always have positive thinking no matter what happens in life.
Everyone wants to be respected. It’s in our nature, but in order to obtain respect, first of all one has to respect oneself. Second, one has to show respect to others in order to gain respect from them. If one doesn’t show respect to someone, that person may often feel blown off and lose respect for you. Respect in my eyes is like a math equation loyalty plus duty equals respect. respect is gained in conducting ones self in a way that others can stand
Value Orientations are an important aspect to social work practice. It is critical that social workers do not let their personal values interfere with their daily work ethic. In addition, social works must keep an objective outlook on the issues they confront because values differ across cultures, race, ethnicity, etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical self-reflection on my personal values.
To have self-respect is to have a certain amount of audacity to show character and morals for oneself. The excerpt from Joan Didion’s, “On Self-Respect,” tells how characteristics like courage, responsibility and being strong is something you can gain and is insight into being raised a certain way. Didion’s thoughts on self-respect appear valid in comparison to my own thoughts on the subject of self-respect and how I perceive society in America.
In other cases respect is earned, and not given. What I mean by this is that, sometimes people must gain the respect of others. This can be earned in many ways, like being respectful of others, being the best you can be, and doing kind things for others. This respect can cause people to look up and follow in example of someone, and eventually making you an example for others to follow and look up to, on so on and so forth.
Respect is holding something or someone in high regard. Respect has an impact on all aspects of my life, both personally and professionally. As a personal value, respect is twofold; I must respect everyone around me as well as respecting myself. I will demonstrate respect for others by treating everyone equally and without judgement. I will listen and be considerate of the opinions and values of others, regardless of conflicting opinions. I will respect myself by dressing modestly and not objectifying myself as a woman. I will not engage in any unethical behaviour that may compromise my personal morals and values.
Giving myself love meant I needed less validation from others. I found if you place too much value upon other’s good opinion of you, you will also put too much stock into their ill opinion of you. Somewhat ironically, I began to feel uneasy when others expressed their good opinion of me. I felt as though their high opinion somehow shackled me to higher expectations I would be unable to fulfill. Someone who doesn’t hold the opinion of others in high regard can neither be honoured nor disgraced; this is true honour. Therefore, I have been working on reducing the importance I place upon what others think of me. By disregarding both criticism and praise, neither can control
Respect for yourself is very important to a person because it can be the balancing factor of your life. If a person has no respect for themselves the will most likely go into depression. Respecting yourself is also important for your self-esteem. Having a high self-esteem means that people
“People act for many reasons; but for whom, or what, do or should they act—for themselves, for God, or for the good of the planet?” (Moseley) An egoist would argue that one acts for one’s own self. More specifically, an ethical egoist is one who thrives to improve ones own self being, with much respect to morality. Ethical Egoism is the theory that one should pursue his or her own interest above all the rest. It is the idea that all persons should act from their own self interest in relation to morality.
Respect shows the inner-self’s esteem of excellence to a person. Respect gives personality out to an adult or another person. Respect
People demand different amounts of respect, though not everyone is willing to give the amount needed. Maybe this is because not every one knows what respect means.
I was taught that for me to be able to respect others, I have to respect myself. I see this to be true for me because I used to constantly beat myself up mistakes that I made in my past. If I am too busy worrying about my past, I find that it makes it even harder for me to focus on the present moment and give the person I am speaking with the respect he deserves. Respect played a big part in my early days of recovery because it was a principle that I did not emulate very well when I was in the midst of my addiction. I had lost all respect for myself, my friends, my family, and really anyone else that I came in contact with because of my own selfishness. When I first arrived in treatment, I had forgotten the concept of respect for myself and for others, but treatment helped me regain the ability to respect myself. After I learned how to respect and love myself, I was able to show respect the to everyone that they deserved. It is now a personal goal of mine to show respect to everyone that I meet because it is a great way to build a good first impression and rapport with
One rule that all people should live by is¨Appreciate what you have because if you lose it or break it you may never get it back.¨My mom
Respect others – If we have no respect for others, how can we have self-respect? Self-respect means we have inner confidence and inner assurance, this is not a confidence or assurance built on superiority. It is the wrong approach to try and feel better by putting others down. If we look for the good qualities in other people it is easier to remember the good qualities in ourselves.
Its one of thethe most important actions you can take for happiness.It will help you spread love to your family, relatives ,friends,close by or others even across the world only after you build enough love reserves within throughloving yourself.Regardless of your situation and circumstances, start and practice truly loving everything about your body, mind and spirit. In your mind's eye, visualize your spirit, mind and body and mind to be golden and glowing. Celebrate the fact that the Universe loves you. We all are really special, we all have something unique to offer, Remind yourself that you are special, lucky and fortunate because you are loving,loved and lovable just because we were born and we exist. Fully embrace the essence of how important you are, identify with yourself fully. You will be amazed with the well being, happiness and peace that loving yourself will bring to you. Continue to love yourself, love your life, love your world.