The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self- respect. – Thomas Huxley
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Never make your self feel like nothing, to make someone else feel like everything.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. – Axel Munthe
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. – Peter McArthur
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. – Proverb
There are other measures of self- respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. – Lao Tzu
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self- respect. – George Bernard Shaw
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self- respect. – Emma Goldman
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. – Ralph Ellison
Self- respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
In my day, we didn’t have self- esteem, we had self- respect, and no more of it than we had earned. – Jane Haddam
Don’t ever dumb yourself down just to make someone else feel comfortable.
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
We are all something, but none of us are everything. – Blaise Pascal
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it. – Ayn Rand
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect. – George Sand
Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect,and the absence of ego. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. – Mahatma Gandhi
Self- control is the chief element in self- respect, and self- respect is the chief element in courage. – Thucydides
I never loved another person the way I loved myself. – Mae West
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. – Helen Keller
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