Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect. – Jo Brand
Self-respect, the value of ‘face,’ is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential. – F. Sionil Jose
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. – George Bernard Shaw
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel. – Kate O’Mara
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
