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
Quotations
Self - Respect
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
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
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius "Confucius"
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
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"
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
