“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter
“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.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Joan Didion
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
Theophile Gautier
