Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
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
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
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
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.
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