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• Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

  Khalil Gibran

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• Quality thoughts will turn their back on you if you don't treat them with respect.

  Dov Davidoff

  Quality, Treats, Turns

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• I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Politics, Deserve

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• If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

  John Robinson

  Boards, Looks, Pressure

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• Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

  William Watson

  Believe, Past, Armament

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• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Prudent, Reverence, Dues

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• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Men, Two

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• Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

  Frederick Douglass

  Mean, People, Ethics

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.257, Hackett Publishing

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• I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  Jackie Robinson

  Mistake, Loneliness, Acceptance

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• There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

  Anwar Sadat

  Happiness, People, Expenses

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• You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

  Bob Dylan

  Better Than You

  Song: To Ramona

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• My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

  Neil Diamond

  Peers, Enough, Accepting

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• Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspiring, Inspire

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

  John Locke

  Son, Order, Reverence

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

  Gene Fowler

  Birthday, Profound, Age

  Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.

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• I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Men, Different, Fellow Man

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• But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, Important, Needs

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• We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed.

  John J. Raskob

  Attitude, Men, Law

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

  Molly Ivins

  Needs, Too Much, Authority

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• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  Abdus Salam

  Civilization, Gone, History Of Science

  Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

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• Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

  Frederick Sanger

  Brother, Years, Scientific Method

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• Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

  Michael Scheuer

  Numbers, Unnecessary, Bin Laden

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• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Search Engine, Creator, Engines

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• The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

  Omar Sharif

  People, Personality, Tiny

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• I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

  Ron Silver

  People, Actors, Fields

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