Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do,... See more

Nonetheless, character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.