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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
Washington Irving
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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
François de la Rochefoucauld
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midler
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What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria Anzaldua
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The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
Odetta
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
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In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.
Elzear Blaze
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The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.
Clay Aiken
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Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.
Jason DeBruin
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There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
George Washington
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
Cicero
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He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
Prophet Mohammed
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There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
Graffito
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It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
Dan Quayle
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I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good
Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Jay Leno
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
Immanuel Kant
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Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
Oprah Winfrey
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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Elbert Hubbard
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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Oprah Winfrey
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call;
Alexander Pope
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I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep.
Tallyrand
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Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
Winfield Hancock
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If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
I.F. Stone
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
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Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert
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When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian Proverb
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All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen
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War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.
Karl von Clausewitz
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1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
Albert Einstein
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The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Benjamin Franklin
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