Character 
Lessons to 
. Train Youth 
; 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
ght, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment League. ] 
Xi. —Self Respect. 
ELF respect is 
such a regard 
for one’s own 
worthiness that 
one cannot be less 
than courageous, 
ambitious, nor less 
than as good as it 
is possible to be. 
Self respect is a 
sort of pride, but 
it differs from 
pride, which sim- 
ply compares _it- 
, self with 
. and looks down 
eee Te WHITE. upon them. The 
Dr oud man does not care what others 
hink of him. 
Pride is based upon real or fancied 
superiority. Envy is due to real or 
ancied inferiority. But pride of pos- 
session, pride of attainment and pride 
of birth are belittling and really exhib- 
it ourselves in our nakedness, without 
the proper clothing of propriety or de- 
cency. Pride is the vice of the strong. 
Envy is the vice of the weak. 
ev respect is a proper pride, that 
“Makes no comparisons with others. 
is ashamed to do anything un. 
worthy or dishonorable. The person 
who does not respect himself cannot 
expect others to respect him. 
Dignity is having a serenity of de- 
panor and is _ associated — with 
frength. It is also consistent with 
humility. Indeed, the two are com- 
|plementary aspects of the same men- 
al quality. 
Self respect is the basis of all true 
| manliness and all true womanliness. 
' When once lost there is little hope that 
anything can be done fer one. 
| Self respect is the foundation of the 
rtues heretofore considered, for it in- 
spires one to carry himself well in 
every situation. It prevents ignomini- 
or sly collapsing in the presence of dif- 
ficulties. 
Vanity is eagerness for admiration 
a nd praise and seeks them, is elated 
if they are rendered and pained if 
they are withheld. Vanity finds its 
gole delight in the good opinion of 
Others. Self respect is in a degree in- 
dependent of the good opinion of oth- 
Its standard is not what others 
, but what one himself thinks of 
self, and it will never stoop to do 
hing: mean or dishonorable, . It 
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Withoxt self respect one is of no 
value: 
The man who is not true to himself, 
who cannot carry out the sealed: or- 
ders placed in his hands at birth, re- 
gardless of the world’s approval or 
disapproval; en 
destiny, which no other soul but his 
own knows, can never rise to.the true 
dignity of manhood or attain success. 
David Pryde says: “The study of 
biography ~ will cure us of affectation 
and conceit. Affectation’ is most de- 
basing. and.deforming. A creature who 
spends the most of his time before the 
“mnirror admiring his own imaginary 
perfections cannot fail to shrivel up 
into something puny and unnatural. 
Everything that he does is marked by 
littleness. The steps he takes are 
little because he fears to soil his ex- 
quisite feet. His mouth becomes little, 
for he thinks it genteel to pucker it 
up. His» words are little because he 
deems it mighty, fine to clip: them. 
His ideas are little because, they, are 
about. a very little subject—namely, 
himself... Now, there is no better, cure 
for this affectation than the contem- 
plation of the great. When we con- 
template great men we will cease to 
think much about-ourselves.- Accord- 
ingly our conduct, words-and ideas will 
become free, unaffected and natural.” 
Emerson. by. his.. independent _ self 
trust as expressed in his essay “Self 
Reliance” has done more than almost 
any other man for intellectual inde- 
ks 
pendence. 
President Garfiefad<; aibrensiatss s Pho 
substanece.of this virtue din his famous’ 
man, cwhose_ 
respect I- must have, and ‘that is. the = 
sentence,, “There. isang. m 
respect of James. AS “Garfield.” = 
Practice.—Let each child. the, next... 
time. he’ is tempted té ‘do or say. any-~ 
thing wrong, stop a moment and’ ask 
himself, ‘Will «- respect ‘myself :if I.- 
do this?” 
. Literature. 
He is wisest who only gives, 
True to himself, the-best he can; 
Who, drifting on the winds of _praise, 
The inward monitor obeys ° 
And with a boldness that confuses fear 
Takes in the crowded sail-and lets his 
conscience steer. 
—Whittier. 
This above alli—to thine own self be true, 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man, 
; —Shakespeare. 
I am more afraid of deseryi ing eriti- 
cism than of receiving it. — Gladstone: 
I am not*concerned’ that I am “not 
known: I seek to ~be ‘worthy to be 
known.—Confucius. 
If we look down,-then--our-shoulders 
stoop. ~—If “our, ithoughts..f60k «downy 
our character. bends. *It-is.only when 
we hold. up, our heads. that..our body. 
becomes erect. It .is only when, our 
thonhts go wy that our life becomes .... 
upright,—A. Mc Kenzie. 
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