A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
-A Spiritual Leader "Hazrat Ali"
A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
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.
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
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
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