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Self Respect Quotes

There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.î

Buck Rodgers

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Unknown

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself

Edgar Watson Howe

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success � for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

Forbes

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Clark, Joe

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizner

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

Bertrand Russell

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ìNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

T H Huxley

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect.

Emma Goldman

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Dr. Carl Sagan

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Henry Louis Mencken

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

John B. Priestly

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Gary Ryan Blair

Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

Price Pritchett

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