If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven't, respect by others is a necessity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect, to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

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Stoicism helps us keep a better ledger of what things are truly worth. It places the highest value on honesty, on self-respect, on tranquility and freedom and security.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

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