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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.
Orison Swett Marden
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.


Eric Hoffer
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.


Barry Gibb
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The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
James Payn
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OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Jennifer Aniston
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.


Sean Connery
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.


Thomas Huxley
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.


Ed Koch
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
Ralph Thomas Walker
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
F. Sionil Jose
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I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
Will Self
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
Gary Hamel
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I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.
Catherine Hardwicke
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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.


Benjamin E. Mays
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
F. Sionil Jose
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Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.
Lewis Thomas
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