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
Quotations
Self - Respect
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
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"
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
