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Respect Quotes - Page 17

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

"Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations