The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Accepting responsibility for one's life creates self-respect.
- In plain terms
- You gain self-respect by owning your life choices.
- What can you take from it?
- Take responsibility to build self-respect.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you take responsibility?
- What builds self-respect?
Another view
External factors can limit personal responsibility.
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