SELF-WORTH (SELF-RESPECT)

SELF-WORTH (SELF-RESPECT)

• I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. — Mahatma Gandhi

• The greatest thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.  — Thomas Huxley

• If you want to be respected by others, the greatest thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. —Joan Didion

• Most people lose their sense of worthwhileness and then no longer try to recover it. —Ernest Bacon

• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. —Michel de Montaigne

• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” — Hunter S. Thompson

• I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. —Rita Mae Brown