Ayn Rand Quotes About Self Respect
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
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Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
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Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he’s great in the eyes of others.
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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.
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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
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It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.
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Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
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