The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Quotations
Self - Respect
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.
-B. R. Ambedkar " B. R. Ambedkar"
A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
-A Spiritual Leader "Hazrat Ali"
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-John Herschel
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
