Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius "Confucius"
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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.
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
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
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi