Do we not realise that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Quotations
Self - Respect
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
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
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
