(97 quotes found)
“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
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Maya Angelou
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Joan Didion
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
Theophile Gautier
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
“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