“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
Theophile Gautier
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
Abdul Kalam
“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
“In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.”
Jane Haddam