A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
Quotations
Self - Respect
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius "Confucius"
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
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
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
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
