They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations
Self - Respect
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
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-Axel Munthe
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-Confucius "Confucius"
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
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras "Pythagoras"
