“Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death”
Wendy Wasserstein
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.”
Edward Koch
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
John Herschel
“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
Theophile Gautier
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