“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
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
“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
“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
