No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.[La plus grande chose du monde c’est de sçauoir estre à soy.]
Self-respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect.[Μὴ τιμήσῃς ποτὲ ὡς συμφέρον σεαυτοῦ, ὃ ἀναγκάσει σέ ποτε τὴν πίστιν παραβῆναι, τὴν αἰδῶ ἐγκαταλιπεῖν, μισῆσαί τινα.]
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases – not all, but most – you also give back that person’s ability to think with at least some clarity.
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
