- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.
- Few Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
- Good Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My self-respect is very dear to me.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
- Amends
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020