Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
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.
-Michel De Montaigne
Do we not realise that self-respect comes with self-reliance?
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
-Jean François Paul De Gondi, Cardinal De Retz
To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw