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"
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
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe