“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.”
George Bernard Shaw
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Men are respectable only as they respect”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all”
Henry Ward Beecher
“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.”
Edward Koch
“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.”
Ralph W. Sockman
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