self-respect Quotes

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The only shame is to have none.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.