In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

—Robert Byrne

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

—Robert Byrne

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

—Robert Byrne

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

—Robert Byrne

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

—Robert Byrne

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

—Robert Byrne

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Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity.

—Julie Garwood in Prince Charming

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Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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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, and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

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