A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
Quotations
Self - Respect
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"
A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
-A Spiritual Leader "Hazrat Ali"
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"
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
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
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
