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• Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

  Amy Grant

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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• Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

  William Shakespeare

  Ethics, Persons, Self Respect

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [100]

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• Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Children, Parent, Needs

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.206, New World Library

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• Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

  Rumi

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Appreciation, Struggle, Adversity

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

  Adolf Hitler

  Faith, Religious, Hate

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

  Masaru Emoto

  Animal, Tree, Kingdoms

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

  James Madison

  Character, Numbers, Presidential

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

  James Madison

  Rights, Majority, Minorities

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Expression, Maximum, Knows

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• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Men, Diversity

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• Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Walks, Tall

  Song: New York City Serenade, 1973

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Happiness, Faith, Determination

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self Esteem, Being Alone, Self Worth

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

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• We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, Men, Humanity

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.118, New Word City

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• The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

  James Payn

  Mean, Men, Self

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

  Steig Larsson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Trust

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• What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Men, Names

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• Never kick a man when he's up.

  Tip O'Neill

  Men, Kicks

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• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Children, Character

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

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  Ram Dass

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Knowing

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• People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Paul Cronin, 2002.

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• Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mean, Respectability

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• We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Wish, Deceiving

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