The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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