Free Joan Didion - To us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Clint Eastwood - Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

John D. Rockefeller - Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

h.r.d - Learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn to admire your beauty without finding fault. Learn to love yourself without the love of others.

Joel Osteen - I challenge you to let every day be a Friday. Give yourself permission to be happy every day.

Robert Benchley - It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.

Marshall McLuhan - “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

Alice Morse Earle - Every day may not be good but there's something good in every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Barry Bonds - Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Henri Frederic Amiel - There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Samuel Smiles - Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Tommy Lasorda - You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.

Baltasar Gracian - Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Chanakya - There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."

Buddha - No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Bill Owens - True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

C. S. Lewis - God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Brené Brown - Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.

Dan Pearce - People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Lydia M. Child - An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.