SELF-RESPECT

Related Subjects: Pride, Self-Reliance, Superiority

1. The reverence of man's self, is, next to religion, the chief est bridle
   of all vices.—BACON
   

2. No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.—E. H. CHAPIN
   

3. 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.—DOSTOYEVSKY, The Insulted and the Injured
   

4. Self-respect, that corner stone of all virtue.—SIR JOHN HERSCHEL
   

5. It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

6. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.—LINCOLN
   

7. Oft times nothing profits more
   Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountain-head from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.—MILTON
   

9. I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

10. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs
    Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas
    And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels
    Than Caesar with a senate at his heels.—POPE, Essay on Man
    

11. Above all things, reverence yourself.—PYTHAGORAS
    

12. So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.—RABELAIS
    

13. Every one stamps his own value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. Man is made great or little by his own will.—SCHILLER
    

14. Be noble-minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.—SCHILLER
    

15. When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest thyself, thou mayest let go thy tutor.—SENECA
    

16. To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.—STERNE
    

17. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
    These three alone lead life to sovereign power.—TENNYSON, Aenone