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Carolyn Smagalski
Self Respect
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"The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat
directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict."
-- Andrew Bernstein
"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth
having has a price." -- Joan Didion
"We are the hero of our own story. " - Mary McCarthy
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to
myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. " --
Michel de Montaigne
"If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no
heroes." -- Mark Twain
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and
to know one's self." -- Benjamin Franklin
"True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in
ourselves and our fellow man." -- Benjamin Burt
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that
nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." -- Oprah
Winfrey
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back
to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of
self-respect." -- Joan Didion
"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being
one's own person is its ultimate reward." -- Patricia Sampson
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed,
but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts." --
George Bernard Shaw
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big
difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make
which, over time, add up to big differences that we often
cannot foresee." -- Marian Wright Edelman
"You are as important on the first step of your journey as you
are on your last." -- Duane Alan Hahn
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