Quotes about Self Respect (327 quotes)

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Votes: 6

Maya Angelou

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline. Votes: 4

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Votes: 4

Theodore Parker

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Whatever good things we build end up building us. Votes: 4

Jim Rohn

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Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Votes: 4

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. Votes: 4

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Votes: 4

Laurence Sterne

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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. Votes: 4

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. Votes: 4

Gordon B. Hinckley

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They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. Votes: 4

Mahatma Gandhi

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Votes: 4

Joan Didion

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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Votes: 4

Leo Buscaglia

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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. Votes: 4

Dale E. Turner

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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. Votes: 4

Jane Haddam

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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Votes: 4

Clint Eastwood

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. Votes: 4

George Bernard Shaw

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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Votes: 4

Jackie Robinson

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Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. Votes: 4

Thomas S. Monson

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Votes: 4

Frederick Douglass

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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. Votes: 4

Max Nordau

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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. Votes: 4

William J. H. Boetcker

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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. Votes: 4

Gail Sheehy

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. Votes: 4

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it Votes: 4

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives. Votes: 3

Pandurang Shastri Athavale

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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? Votes: 2

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. Votes: 2

Gina Carano

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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. Votes: 2

J. K. Rowling

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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again. Votes: 2

Feist

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. Votes: 2

Orison Swett Marden

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I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money. Votes: 2

Kristy Swanson

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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character. Votes: 2

Ralph Thomas Walker

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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. Votes: 2

Roger Nash Baldwin

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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. Votes: 2

Ralph W. Sockman

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Self-respect knows no considerations. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Self-respect leads to self-discipline. Votes: 0

Clint Eastwood

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Hard work breeds self-respect. Votes: 0

Pat Summitt

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Honesty defines self respect. Votes: 0

Unarine Ramaru

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Self-respect is the best of all. Votes: 0

Hosea Ballou

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Self respect is impossible without liberty.... Votes: 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Paradise Is The Absolute Self~Respect. Votes: 0

Alexia Penteleon de aRcturi

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Paradise Is The ABSOLUTE Self~Respect. Votes: 0

Alexia Penteleόn de aRcturi

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Self-respect is the root of discipline Votes: 0

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue. Votes: 0

John Herschel

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Self respect beats social approval, every time. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect Votes: 0

George Sand

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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. Votes: 0

Joe Clark

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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. Votes: 0

John Herschel

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When you have self-respect, you have enough. Votes: 0

Gail Sheehy

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One cannot pay the price of self-respect. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson

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Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect. Votes: 0

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect. Votes: 0

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Learn to live in this world with self-respect Votes: 0

B. R. Ambedkar

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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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In silence you shall face self...and have respect. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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The truest self-respect is not to think of self. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior. Votes: 0

Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

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A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. Votes: 0

Alfred Adler

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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect. Votes: 0

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden. Votes: 0

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

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True compassion is about not bruising the other person's self-respect. Votes: 0

Naoki Higashida

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? Votes: 0

Abdul Kalam

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Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. Votes: 0

Matthew Parris

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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect. Votes: 0

Abraham Low

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Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect. Votes: 0

Cressida Cowell

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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect. Votes: 0

Jeff Cooper

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The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. Votes: 0

Frosty Westering

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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught. Votes: 0

Unarine Ramaru

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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. Votes: 0

Junior Seau

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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory. Votes: 0

Misha Collins

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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. Votes: 0

Harold Ramis

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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. Votes: 0

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others. Votes: 0

Madeleine de Scudery

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But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth Votes: 0

Rozz Williams

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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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When respect becomes scarce the last resort is the respect of one's self Votes: 0

Constance Chuks Friday

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Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect. Votes: 0

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Self-respect leads to self-discipline and self-discipline paves a way for respect towards others. Votes: 0

Unarine Ramaru

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Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance. Votes: 0

Ann Landers

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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect. Votes: 0

Adela Rogers St. Johns

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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness! Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. Votes: 0

Barry Gibb

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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. Votes: 0

Judith M Bardwick

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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Votes: 0

Thucydides

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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Votes: 0

Thucydides

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National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement. Votes: 0

Richard Rorty

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If he doesn't want your heart. He doesn't deserve your body. Don't neglect your SELF-RESPECT. Votes: 0

Surgeo Bell

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be a woman of confidence and self-respect; give a man a reason worth fighting for. Votes: 0

Nikki Rowe

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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you. Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Respect, reverence, self-esteemAre my basic requisites I refuse to be a competitorWho struggles for personal rights Votes: 0

Balroop Singh

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. Votes: 0

Emily Post

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt

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football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect. Votes: 0

Jo Brand

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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi

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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you Votes: 0

Rashedur Rahman

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A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT! Votes: 0

L. Michelle

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Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you Votes: 0

Rashedur Ryan Rahman

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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else. Votes: 0

Thomas Szasz

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To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. Votes: 0

Auliq Ice

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Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? Votes: 0

Tina Fey

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Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect. Votes: 0

Maery Rubin

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Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. Votes: 0

Paul Hoffman

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Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things. Votes: 0

Otto Weininger

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If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. Votes: 0

David Eddings

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself. Votes: 0

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor. Votes: 0

Richard G. Scott

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What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect? Votes: 0

Justina Chen

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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. Votes: 0

Barry Bonds

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MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. Votes: 0

Marshall Sylver

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Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Votes: 0

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge . Votes: 0

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

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Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature. Votes: 0

Toni Morrison

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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background, Votes: 0

Ahmad Jamal

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Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference. Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. Votes: 0

Cass Sunstein

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Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. Votes: 0

Denis Waitley

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It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers. Votes: 0

Robert Downey, Jr.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Finding out what you're good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. Votes: 0

Ed Koch

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Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. Votes: 0

George Washington

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I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more. Votes: 0

Ted Corbitt

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For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it. Votes: 0

Fred Reed

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Respect your self-worth, and vow not to be like those who make themselves very availiable for people who are unavailiable for them. Votes: 0

Edmond Mbiaka

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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. Votes: 0

William Godwin

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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor Votes: 0

Julie Garwood

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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect. Votes: 0

Ferdinand Marcos

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... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct. Votes: 0

Mary Barnett Gilson

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Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something. Votes: 0

David J. Lieberman

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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. Votes: 0

Sarah Addison Allen

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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. Votes: 0

David McCullough

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold. Votes: 0

Debbie Ford

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The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing. Votes: 0

Laura Schlessinger

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You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect. Votes: 0

Jimmy Chamberlin

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It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. Votes: 0

Michael E. DeBakey

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When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence! Votes: 0

Tae Yun Kim

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This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world. Votes: 0

B. Barmanbek

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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential. Votes: 0

F. Sionil Jose

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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. Votes: 0

John J. McCloy

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I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others. Votes: 0

Davey Havok

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Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor. Votes: 0

Ruben Papian

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Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others. Votes: 0

Vishwas Chavan

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It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Branden

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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation. Votes: 0

Abraham Maslow

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Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others. Votes: 0

Miya Yamanouchi

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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Votes: 0

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect. Votes: 0

Thorstein Veblen

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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty. Votes: 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent. Votes: 0

Ursula Goodenough

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Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect Votes: 0

Frantz Fanon

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Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But donât ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on. Votes: 0

Danica McKellar

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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect. Votes: 0

Hal Porter

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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. Votes: 0

Kurt Cobain

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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect. Votes: 0

Mike Livingston

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I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence. Votes: 0

Jennifer Nettles

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Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up. Votes: 0

Sharon Olds

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people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well. Votes: 0

Suze Orman

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The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect. Votes: 0

Karen Horney

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We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation. Votes: 0

Donella Meadows

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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson

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Too many people think that "good manners" are about subjugating yourself to others. Not true. Respect, and just as important, self-respect are two key elements in this equation. Votes: 0

Steven Petrow

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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. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel. Votes: 0

Kate O'Mara

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The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure. Votes: 0

Ralph Bunche

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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. Votes: 0

Bruno Bettelheim

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Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters. Votes: 0

Don Coppersmith

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When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect. Votes: 0

Shunryu Suzuki

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It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness. Votes: 0

Sarah Josepha Hale

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Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates. Votes: 0

Marvin J. Ashton

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The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. Votes: 0

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum. Votes: 0

Bunker Roy

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Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit. Votes: 0

Thomas Szasz

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When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect. Votes: 0

Susan Jeffers

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Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. Votes: 0

Emma Goldman

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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect. Votes: 0

Russell Lynes

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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect. Votes: 0

Richard Morris

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The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them? Votes: 0

Zora Neale Hurston

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I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Rabbit Maranville

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If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost. Votes: 0

Immortal Technique

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The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity. Votes: 0

Cesar Chavez

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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland

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An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama. Votes: 0

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. Votes: 0

Alice Miller

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To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina. Votes: 0

Caroline Myss

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Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be. Votes: 0

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness--which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect. from Unleash the Writer Within Votes: 0

Cecil Murphey

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Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else? Votes: 0

Neil Peart

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Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life. Votes: 0

Dallin H. Oaks

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acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact. Votes: 0

Ethel Smyth

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What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world? Votes: 0

Humphry Davy

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Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?' Votes: 0

Paul Giamatti

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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. Votes: 0

Preston Brooks

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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him. Votes: 0

Tracy McMillan

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This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. Votes: 0

Laura Hillenbrand

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Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character. Votes: 0

Frederick Douglass

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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you. Votes: 0

Luke Evans

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... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her. Votes: 0

Susan B. Anthony

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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect. Votes: 0

Henrik Ibsen

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Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed. Votes: 0

Charles Koch

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If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off. Votes: 0

Henry Hazlitt

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Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for. Votes: 0

Tad R. Callister

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