Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive.
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
Look the world straight in the eye.
When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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