A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
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 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