23 Movie Quotes about Self-Respect (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jul 31, 2026

Memorable quotes about Self-Respect, selected from famous or less known movies, featuring short audio clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

11 Ancestors, I honor you, and will try to live with the dignity you have taught me.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

12 I consider one of the greatest virtues to take defeat with dignity.

Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley in Champagne for Caesar

13 That's all my high principles are worth. I'm ashamed of myself.

Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day

14 Well, that really disappoints me. I can see that you have no respect for me, or my contribution to this company. So you have forced me to turn in my letter of resignation.

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

15 You think I'm a failure. I know who I am. And I'm proud of what I do. It was a conscious choice. I didn't _ up.

Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

16 Well, let me tell you something, and get this into your head. This is my home, and when you come in here, treat me with respect, and address me with a civil tongue!

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

17 Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

18 No, I'm not a failure. I'm a success. And so are you, if you earn your own living and pay your own bills and look the world in the eye.

Quote from Christmas in July (1944)

19 You're two-timing me and I'm warning you, I'm one girl you can't treat this way. I won't be pushed around and neglected.

Quote from Ocean's 11 (1960)

20 Look! I don't like to get pushed around. I don't like people that like to be pushed around. I don't like anybody to get pushed around.

Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)