Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.
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.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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