Self Respect

Self-respect is essential to every human being. When a person is born, throughout his life he develops a certain degree of self-respect for himself. No one can teach him self-respect. Self-respect comes from within a person. He has to learn it for himself. Alfred Whitney Griswold put it best when he said,

“Self respect can not be hunted. It can not be purchased. It is not for sale. It can never be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.” (Anand and Kulbir)

If a person does not have any self-respect they can not make any decisions for themselves. They will people pushed into situations they either do or don’t want to do. People will also take advantage of them and eventually that person will end up being cheated. In life a person needs to develop a sense of self-respect for themselves in order to make decisions for themselves and be able to survive in this world.

To start lets define what exactly self-respect is. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary the meaning of self-respect is “regard for on

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A proper respect for oneself as a human being. Whatever the crowd wanted done, the prince would do just to gain their respect and honor. In the end the man really thinks of his self-respect and suggest that if anything went wrong the Burmese People would again laugh at him and this did not sit well with him. He will also be taken advantage of because he will not have enough respect for himself to say no to someone. Even if the decisions consist of doing something unethically, just as long as it keeps the crowds happy. ” (Orwell 66)

Here it is clearly stated in the end that the police officer is more concerned with what the Burman people would think of him than, rather than following through with his original plans.

He says “For at that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone. For instance when a person keeps putting himself down and always thinks he cannot do something he develops a lower sense of self-respect. Plato also thought that a man would have respect and earn respect if he followed morals and ethics. They become so paranoid about sharing their own feelings that they retroactively bottle all feelings up inside them self. (218)

In life a person needs a strong sense of self-respect for himself or herself in order to make good decisions for themselves.

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