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"
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
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
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
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
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Do we not realise that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould