Self-Respect

(126 votes)   They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(125 votes)   Self respect is the most important thing to allow others to respect you

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(109 votes)   He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(89 votes)   The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

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(83 votes)   Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(80 votes)   Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

B. C. Forbes
1880-1954, American Publisher

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(77 votes)   Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(70 votes)   To have that sense of one's 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 locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion
1934-, American Essayist

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(64 votes)   Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter Mcarthur

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(59 votes)   I have just about all I can take of myself.

S. Behrman

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