The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others.
Joan Didion Share on WhatsApp
People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.
Joan Didion Share on WhatsApp
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus Share on WhatsApp
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
Brené Brown Share on WhatsApp
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
Simone de Beauvoir Share on WhatsApp
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others...
W. E. B. Du Bois Share on WhatsApp
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein Share on WhatsApp
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
Joan Didion Share on WhatsApp
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
William J. H. Boetcker Share on WhatsApp
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion Share on WhatsApp
கல்வி அறிவும், சுயமரியாதை எண்ணமும், பகுத்தறிவுத் தன்மையுமே தாழ்ந்து கிடக்கும் மக்களை உயர்த்தும்.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Share on WhatsApp
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.
Osho Share on WhatsApp
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Share on WhatsApp
சுயமரியாதை என்பது பிறப்புரிமை. அதை யாருக்கும் விட்டுக்கொடுக்கக் கூடாது.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Share on WhatsApp
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.
Frederick Douglass Share on WhatsApp
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Share on WhatsApp
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel Share on WhatsApp
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Marcus Aurelius Share on WhatsApp
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi Share on WhatsApp