If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
- Mark Twain
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We are all something, but none of us are everything.
- Blaise Pascal
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To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.
- Sidonie Gruenberg
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Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.
- William Ellery Channing
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Hermann Hesse
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If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
- Carla Gordon
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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
- Jane Nelson
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
- Eric Hoffer
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
- Joan Didion
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