Respect thyself.......................

     "Always do the affairs of man change and improve because keen-minded men seek greater skill that they may better serve those upon whose patronage they depend.  Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lest they be left behind. . . .
     "Thus the seventh and last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself to achieve thy carefully considered desires."

-Arkad, as channeled by George S. Clason in The Richest Man In Babylon