Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
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
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.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
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 man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe