The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
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.
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
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel