Quotes with self-respect

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  • Lord George Byron If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
    Character Ch. VI
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Betty Shabazz Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Milan Kundera Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Our first and last love is... self-love.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Adel Bestavros Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
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  • Kate Millet Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Addison Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • John Madden Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Joseph Addison True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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