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Letter "S" » self respect
«You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.»
Author: Edward Koch
(Author, Mayor)
| About:
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bag, punch, punched, punches, punching, punching bag, punch in, respect to, self respect
«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.»
Author: Gail Sheehy
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Goodness,
Respect,
Self-respect,
Success,
Wealth
| Keywords:
award, awarded, awarding, concept, good enough, self respect, socially, thin
«What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| Keywords:
hoping, knock, knocking, knockings, knocks, knock on, leading, live with, Opportunity Knocks, personality, prepare, pursue, seize, self image, self respect
«True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
| About:
Humility,
Self-respect,
Thinking
| Keywords:
come short, highly, humility, meanly, modest, reminding, self respect
«Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
animate, animates, clay, Graves, No self, patriotic, patriotism, self respect, soil, sympathy
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