Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
Lao Tzu
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
Abdullah Ibrahim
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The painter… does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard
I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one’s ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.
Richard Hatch
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that’s really the only place to go. It’s the only place to remain.
Andrew Cohen
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
Abraham Joshua Heschel