Building Your Integrity & Self-Respect
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Listen to episode 1061 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Integrity & Self-Respect | Building Your Personal Brand. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-respect is one of the basic ingredients that go to make success. If we lose respect for ourselves, we will sooner or later lose the respect of others. Self-respect is not pride. It is not haughtiness. It is that hard-to-define "something" which prevents us from stooping to meanness, pettiness, harshness, bossiness; which resents every form of unfairness; which rebels against injustice; which compels us to have scrupulous regard for the rights and feelings of others.
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| 1:40.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Keys to Success by BC Forbes, published in 1918. |
| 1:55.7 | A person may lose their earthly all, yet if they retain their self-respect, they can still be rich |
| 2:05.3 | in the things that count, the things that endure, the things worthwhile. The individual |
| 2:14.5 | who loses their self-respect, though they may have millions, is poor indeed, |
| 2:22.3 | a bankrupt, a failure. |
| 2:26.3 | Self-respect is one of the basic ingredients that go to make success. |
| 2:33.3 | If we lose respect for ourselves, we will sooner or later lose the respect of others. |
| 2:41.0 | Self-respect is not pride. It is not haughtiness. |
| 2:47.0 | It is that hard to define something which prevents us from stooping to meanness, pettiness, harshness, bossiness, |
| 2:57.6 | which resents every form of unfairness, which rebels against injustice, which compels us to have scrupulous regard for the rights and feelings of others. |
| 3:13.3 | The self-respecting person cannot flout the self-respect of others, |
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