Self-respect Quotes
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
Abraham Low
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.
Hal Porter
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
Neil Peart
Rush
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The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.
Edgar Wilson Nye
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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Victor Hugo
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
Motörhead
