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“A certain kind of self-respect or native pride is necessary to a good life.”
Russell treats a durable sense of inward worth as necessary for living without surrendering completely to defeat, pressure or external judgment.
Source note: Political Ideals, discussion of what social institutions should make possible for individuals. Russell immediately connects self-respect with courage, hope and living by the best within oneself despite obstacles.
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“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.”
Instead of beginning with what an event has taken away, the practice asks which capacity—endurance, restraint, patience, or judgment—can still be exercised.
Source note: Enchiridion, section X, George Long translation; Epictetus gives examples such as endurance under pain and patience under abuse.
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“Show the world that you respect yourself, that you believe in yourself, and that, no matter how hard the way, you are marching on to victory.”
Marden treats visible self-respect as a refusal to let hardship define identity, encouraging a posture of agency even when material circumstances are difficult.
Source note: The Victorious Attitude, opening chapter; the rhetoric is deliberately motivational and reflects early twentieth-century success literature rather than an empirical psychological claim.
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“A man begins to deteriorate, to go toward failure, not when he loses all of his material possessions, not when he fails in his undertakings, but when he loses faith in himself, in his ability to make his dreams come true.”
Material loss and failed attempts are separated from the deeper danger of abandoning personal agency; the sentence treats continued self-belief as a resource for beginning again.
Source note: The Victorious Attitude; this sentence appears in Marden’s sustained argument that loss of self-faith is more damaging than the loss of possessions or an individual undertaking.
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“That faith and self-respect had early been awakened which must always lead, at last, to an outward serenity and an inward peace.”
Self-respect and inward faith are presented as foundations that can survive adversity and gradually produce greater steadiness in both outward life and inner experience.
Source note: Woman in the Nineteenth Century, in the discussion of Miranda; Fuller explicitly connects awakened self-respect with serenity and inward peace.
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“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
Emerson argues that mature character requires enough independence to resist conformity when conviction points elsewhere.
Source note: Self-Reliance, in the section urging trust in one’s own judgment.