Respect Quotes

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- Mahatma Gandhi

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
- Axel Munthe

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
- Henry David Thoreau

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
- Rene Descartes

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- G. K. Chesterton

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
- Albert Einstein

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
- Anton Chekhov