Quotes with self-respect

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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • John Adams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Nathaniel Branden Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
    Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2013)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ayn Rand Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Anton Chekhov Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Lord George Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • M'Ckuen Roger Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
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  • Maxwell Maltz Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Samuel Butler Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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