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  • As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

    Peace   Ideas   Self  
  • Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

  • Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

    Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin
  • The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

    Self   Drunk   Touching  
  • To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

    Respect   Self   Oneness  
    Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.760, GENERAL PRESS
  • The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

    Self   Cost   Wages  
  • Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

    Respect   Army   Action  
    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 2) Comprising official letters relating to the French War, and private letters before the American Revolution”, p.412
  • Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

    Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”
  • And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

    David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.
  • Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

    Self   World   Opinion  
  • I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

    Writing   Self   Giving  
    "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.
  • Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

  • By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

  • If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

    Strong   Hurt   Self  
  • Self-respect is the best of all.

  • In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

  • There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

  • For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

    Self   People   Creative  
  • I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

  • The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

    Life   Success   Nature  
    John Stuart Mill (2008). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.
  • It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  • Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.

  • ...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.

  • I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

  • Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

    Self   Evil   Relax  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”
  • That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

    Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.132
  • It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.
  • So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

    Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.20, M.E. Sharpe
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