Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
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.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
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
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.