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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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Don't seek to gain anything for yourself that
forces you to break your
word or lose self-respect; to hate,
suspect, or curse another; or to be
insincere or to desire
something that needs to remain secret.
Look to the people whose main desire is to
nurture their minds and their
inner spirits. They do
not fuss, complain, or crave either solitude or
a
crowd. And, most important of all, they will live
without either striving
or avoiding, and will not care
whether their lives are long or short.
If death comes for them at this very instant,
they will go as easily as if
they were doing any other act
needing self-respect and calm, being careful
of only this
through their lives: that their thoughts do not stray
into paths
incompatible with an intelligent and social
being.
Marcus Aurelius
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It is the highest form of self-respect
to admit our errors and mistakes
and make amends for them.
To make a mistake is only an error in judgment,
but to
adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of
character.
Dale E. Turner
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Self-respect
cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for
sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It
comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet
places,
when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good,
we have done it;
knowing the beautiful, we have served it;
knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
Whitney
Griswold
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Those that respect themselves are safe
from others;
They wear a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
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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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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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The capacity for getting
along with our
neighbor
depends
to a large extent
on the capacity for
getting
along with
ourselves. The self-respecting individuals
will try to be as tolerant
of their neighbor's
shortcomings as they
are of their own.
Eric Hoffer
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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.
Max Nordau
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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all
virtue.
John Herschel |
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you
that
will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Henry Brooks Adams
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My
mother insisted that everyone in her life treat her with
respect. Though
she wasn't wealthy or well educated,
my mother not only understood
and appreciated her value, but
believed in it. Strongly. Deeply.
Passionately. . . . when she learned he was cheating on her,
she insisted
that he move out of our home. Not the
next day or the next week. The very
day Chubby
discovered my father had gone back on his promise to be
faithful
to her, she told him he had to go. . . . To me, as
a child, Chubby's refusal
to take my father back seemed
harsh, even cruel. As a woman, however,
I have come to
understand it. For my mother, putting Daddy out of the
house and her life wasn't about pride; it was about
principle. The one
she had always lived by. The
one she believed in with all her heart: No one
was
going to love and respect you unless you loved and respected
yourself.
Patti
LaBelle
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Respect yourself and others will
respect you.
Confucius
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Some people have so much respect for
their superiors
they have none left for themselves.
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
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The
principal thing children are taught
by hearing these lullabies
is respect.
They are taught to respect certain
things in life and certain people.
By giving respect, they hope to
gain self-respect and through
self-respect, they gain the respect
of others. Self-respect is one of
the qualities my people stress and
try to nurture, and one of the
controls an Indian has as he or
she grows up. Once you lose
your self-respect, you just go down.
Henry
Old Coyote
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The
tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence
and self-respect everywhere except within themselves,
and so they fail in their search.
Nathaniel
Branden
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True
humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from
thinking
too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us
modest by
reminding us
how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph
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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.
Gail Sheehy
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Coming
to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically
improve
your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the
actions
you take. And as
you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other
people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously
"train" others how
to treat us through messages we send through body language,
tone of
voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors.
Discovering your innate
worth and living from that place allows you to make more
constructive choices--to choose the higher roads of life.
Dan
Millman
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"Simon,
let me be sure if I comprehend what you're saying.
Your position is that man, at one time, perhaps through a
closer communion
with his God, believed that he was truly a marvelous
creation, a superior
being made in the image of God. Then he began to make
discoveries that
gradually chipped away at the high opinion he had of
himself, until he eventually
was thinking, 'If we're not godlike people, if we do not
live in the center of
God's world, if we are really only animals, and if we cannot
control and explain
many of our actions, then we are not of any more consequence
than the weeds
in our garden. If we are not, in truth, very much of
anything, then how can we
be proud of ourselves? And if we are not proud of what
we are, how can we
like ourselves? And if we don't like ourselves, who
wants to live with that
sort of person. . . so. . . let's get rid of
ourselves. Let's drive too fast, or drink
too much, or eat too much, or purposely foul up so that we
can get ourselves
fired from our jobs so that we can sit in the corner and
suck our thumbs and tell
ourselves that we're worthless anyway, so what the
hell.' Is that it?"
"Exactly."
Og Mandino
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If you want to be respected, you must
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Spanish Proverb
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People
do not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect
to food.
Mohandas Gandhi
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You almost have to step
outside yourself and look at you as if you
were someone else you really care about and really want to
protect.
Would you let someone take advantage of that person?
Would you
let someone use that person you really care about? Or
would you
speak up for them? If it was someone else you care
about, you'd
say something. I know you would. Okay, now put
yourself back in
that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell
'em, "Enough!”
Queen Latifah
Put on Your Crown
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I have found that the way to deal with disrespectful individuals is to let them know
that I am not a person who is going to tolerate that kind of conduct.
So if a clerk
reacts to me rudely, the first thing I do is say to myself, This is their behavior.
They
own this. Then I try to react with some kind of kindness.
If that doesn’t work, I
immediately go to another employee or to a supervisor, or I leave the situation
altogether. I will not stand there and be physically, mentally, intellectually, or
spiritually abused by anyone, ever, because I know that in allowing this to happen,
I have given that person permission to treat me that way.
Wayne Dyer
Happiness Is the Way
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