Self Respect Quotes - Page 23

• Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Love Is, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Coins

  At his 85th birthday party on January 06, 1963. "The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns" by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, p. 82, 1980.

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• National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

  Richard Rorty

  Country, Pride, Self

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty”, Prickly Pear (UK)

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• It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Heart, Men, Self

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.59, Bottom of the Hill

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• [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Determination, Integrity, Self

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• Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Self, Flames

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• If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Simple, Self

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• Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self Esteem, Oxygen, Soul

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Self, Sensibility

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.107, Modern Library

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• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Respect, Mean, Men

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• Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Hate, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.69, Penguin

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• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

  Ralph Bunche

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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