They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations
Self - Respect
To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
-B. R. Ambedkar " B. R. Ambedkar"
Do we not realise that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
-Michel De Montaigne
