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Self-respect

«Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.»
«Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.»
«Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.»
«Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.»
«Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.»
«The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.»
Author: Pema Chodron | About: Self-respect
«True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.»
«One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself»
«We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself»
«The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment»