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Letter "S" » self respect
«The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.»
Author: Jeannette Rankin
(Politician)
| Keywords:
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«The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Responsibility
| Keywords:
for one, responsibility, self-respecting, self respect, source, springs, The Source, willingness
«To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Great Expectations, self respect, singular, singulars
«Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.»
«There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Confidence,
Failure
| Keywords:
confidence man, king, no confidence, self-respecting, self confidence, self respect, to a man
«They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
away, in some respects, in that respect, respect, self-respecting, self, self respect, take away
«Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.--»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| Keywords:
deprive, deprives, oxygen, self-respecting, self respect
«Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
as yet, secure, self-respecting, self respect, suspicious
«Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
foundations, self respect, severity, sobriety, sociality
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