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You must be
true to yourself.
Strong enough to be
true to yourself.
Brave enough to be
strong enough to be
true to yourself.
Wise enough to be
brave enough to be
strong enough to
shape yourself from what
you actually are.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner, (in Myself)
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is...impossible.
-Richard Bach, Illusions
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An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
-Joyce Brothers
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Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
-Les Brown
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
-Frederick Douglass
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"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
-Frederick Douglass
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
-Victor Frankl
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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
-André Gide
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Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
-Edmond de Goncourt
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"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant."
-J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
(Polonius speaking)
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I scene III
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
-Paul Ambroise Valery
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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
-Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
-Oprah Winfrey, "O Magazine", February, 2003
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"Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, 'That my heart has bled.' "
-Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night IX. l. 497
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"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
-Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto [Book II, Chapter 16]
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Books about Self Respect
