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Letter "S" » Self-respect
«It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
| About:
Character,
Errors,
Mistakes,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
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«No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.»
Author: David Copperfield
(Illusionist)
| About:
Homosexuality,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
clothing, gay, No self, respecting, self-respecting
«If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Self-respect
| Keywords:
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«Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.»
«I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Criticism,
Mankind,
Right,
Self-respect,
Sin
| Keywords:
demean, demeaning, demeans, human being, Human eye, human right, matters, No self, self-respecting, self respect, sin, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
| About:
Greatness,
Self-esteem,
Self-love,
Self-respect,
Vanity
| Keywords:
double, knock, The Double
«Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience»
«Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bid, defiance, for sure, involve, Just Cause, Just War, Long War, national, preserved, self respect, tranquillity
«If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.»
«Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.»
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