Self-respect: (dignity...self-esteem...pride... )

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. --- Martin Luther King, Jr 1929

Let us not forget that a man can never get away from himselft. --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. --- Marcus Aurelius 121

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. --- Booker T Washington 1856

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any person, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains about it. --- Marcus Aurelius 121

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. --- Mahatma Gandhi 1869