The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Quotations
Self - Respect
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
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.
-B. R. Ambedkar " B. R. Ambedkar"
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do we not realise that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
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
