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| Quote for category - self respect |
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur
my own abhorrence.
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to
temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have
been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
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To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an
individual.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our
trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience
that reveals the human spirit.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think
of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of
self-respect.
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our
fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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