Respect Quotes - Page 4

• In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

  Jane Haddam

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

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• Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

  Anna Gould

  Success, Beautiful, Wise

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• When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Self, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

  Philip James Bailey

  Giving, Ethics, Stewardship

  Philip James Bailey (1847). “Festus, a poem. By P. J. Bailey”, p.131

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• Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

  Claudia Black

  People, Actresses, Treats

  Claudia Black (2011). “The Truth Begins with You: Reflections to Heal Your Spirit”, p.38, Central Recovery Press, LLC

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• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  Bono

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Civil Rights

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• I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Inspirational, Ethics, Opinion

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• I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Believe, Important

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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  Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humility, Pride, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

  Marcus Garvey

  Greatness, People, Disrespect

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• Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.150, SCM Press

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• People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, Water, Floating

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Numbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Mean, Caring, Loving Yourself

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin

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• It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

  Alfred Nobel

  Order, Ethics, Worthy

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• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Self, Virtue

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.45, Harmony

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• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Kings, Acceptance

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Virtue

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.

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• We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ignorance Of The Law, Order, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2002). “Songs of the Doomed”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

  Wendell Berry

  Understanding, Ignorant, Reverence

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

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• You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Destiny

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