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
Quotations
Self - Respect
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Do we not realise that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
