The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.

The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

If you cannot show someone respect, show them kindness.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.