“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.”
Joan Didion
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Maya Angelou
“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.”
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
Theophile Gautier
“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.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
