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~ You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ~ ~ Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ~ ~ Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power ~ ~ In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. ~ ~ The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~ ~ Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise. ~ ~ Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different. ~ ~ was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black. ~ ~ A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? ~ ~ A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? ~ ~ You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. ~ ~ If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. ~ |
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