- The more respect you give to others, the more you earn. Adam Grant
- “Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- 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. Adrienne Rich
- Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. Robert Greene
- Renounce all external authority. @TheAncientSage
- “Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- The best gift you can give to others is your presence. The best gift you can give to yourself is perseverance. Maxime Lagacé
- “Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect, to look at ourselves honestly and gently. Pema Chödrön
- When you are compassionate toward yourself, you allow yourself to be vulnerable. And that’s incredibly important. Your authentic truth is your magnificence. Your willingness to let the world see you in truth is your greatest contribution. Gabby Bernstein
- “Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- Never lose yourself to find others. @PersistentObser
- The most important, difficult and rewarding thing to work on is yourself. Sven Schnieders
- “Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- Make it a goal to see the best in everyone and the best will come back to you. Rhonda Byrne
- Speak with confidence, the world needs your light. Gabby Bernstein
- “Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, Amazon book)
- “Self Respect ” respects boundaries, yours or other’s,”Ego” is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.” ― Wordions
- If you set out to cheat and deceive others you’ll be tense and anxious in case you’re found out. But if you live your life and conduct your business on the basis of truth and honesty, it gives you a sense of satisfaction and self-confidence that is also a source of inner strength. 14th Dalai Lama
- While we are still alive, we have to discover ourselves, understand ourselves, and express ourselves. Bruce Lee
- Your value, your self-worth doesn’t come from another person. Joel Osteen
- “هناك نوعان من الفخر الشخصي، الأول هو فخر جيد يمثل كرامتنا واحترام الذات, والآخر سيئ ويمثل الفوقية أو الغرور والغطرسة.أجرحني بالحقيقة ولا تواسيني في كذبك” ― Husam Wafaei
- We can discover truth for ourselves only when we do not depend on another; no specialist can give us the right answer. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don’t believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart’s content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one’s everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- “Seek a man that doesn’t ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God’s love.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ― Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee” ― indonesia123