Learn Through Quotations

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.”

“The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“Self-respect knows no considerations.”

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

“More value of a man depends upon his courage; his verstality depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of homour.”

“The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender,her respect as a person with potential.”

“A show of envy is an insult to oneself.”

“Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals.”

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.”

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

“Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”

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

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.”

“In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.”

“If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.”