They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations
Self - Respect
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
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
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.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
