Quotes

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-Abraham J. Heschel

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
-Robert H. Schuller

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
-Molly Ivins

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
-Buddha

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
-Albert Einstein

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
-Aristotle

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
-Aeschylus

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

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-Albert Camus

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
-Louis Pasteur

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
-Robert H. Schuller

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
-Henry David Thoreau

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
-Charles Lamb

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
-Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
-William Lyon Phelps

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
-Molly Ivins

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
-Louis Pasteur

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
-Thomas Jefferson

Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
-Alexander Pope

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

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

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
-Lao Tzu

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
-Charles de Gaulle

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
-Richard Bach

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
-Henry David Thoreau

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
-Benjamin Franklin

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?
-William Shakespeare

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
-Dale E. Turner

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

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