22 quotes found
“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they ...”
“Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assign...”
“The fact is no one has understood me in entirety till now!”
“From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.”
“Teach people how to treat you”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, wh...”
“To have that sense of ones 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 lock...”
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.”
“Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.”
“if you think she is amazing, you are the ordinary one ...”
“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
“I will win , not immediately.... But Definately...!!!!!!”
“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”
“our thoughts have to be accountable to our self”
