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Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Charlotte Brontë _ Shirley
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
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Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre
care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Insulted and Humiliated
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.
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James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain
It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.
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Chris Bohjalian _ Wingspan
This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect
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Martha Gellhorn _ The Face of War
As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect.
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Sarah Vowell _ The Wordy Shipmates
--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master."
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E.M. Forster _ Maurice
Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and surpass any legends about Heavan.
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Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.
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Joan Didion _ Slouching Towards Bethlehem
There is a common superstition that "self-respect" is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.
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Joan Didion _ On Self-Respect
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
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