Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
— Dalai Lama
Authentic Self Respect quotations
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.
The great majority of us are Muslims.
We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.
Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion;
with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.
This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever.
There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.