Author Information
Quotes On Self Respect
Abraham J. Heschel:
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Bonaro W. Overstreet:
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
Frederick Douglass:
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.
Jane Haddam:
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Michel de Montaigne:
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
