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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?

  Jane Nelson

  Topics in Children, Kindness, Self Respect

  Tags in Idea
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  The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance, Opinion

• Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

  Clint Eastwood

  Topics in Inspirational, Power, Respect, Self Respect

  Tags in Self, Discipline

• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Self Respect, Truth

• 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

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Myself, Ridicule

• If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

  Carla Gordon

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Language
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  The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Acceptance, Loneliness
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  The nice thing about self-love is that it’s hardly ever unrequited.

  Solomon Short

  Topics in Love, Self Respect

  Tags in Hardly, Nice

• For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Topics in Self Respect
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  They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Injustice

• We are going to try to long-term him. We originally wanted to do this in early February, but I guess Drew was just answering the question honestly.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Honestly, Guess

• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Politics, Progress, Self Respect

  Tags in Community, City

• Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Memory, Self Respect

  Tags in Good, Time, Everything, Self-Esteem, Destroy

• I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

  Unknown

  Topics in Inspirational, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Giving, Loneliness, Difficulties, Despair

• I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Violate, Namely, Denial

• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Measure, Man, Day

• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Sin, Right, Mankind, Criticism

• We are all something, but none of us are everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Limitations, Worth

• There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth