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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Maya Angelou

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

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

Julius Erving

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

Mencius

How people treat you with their karma. How you react is yours.

Wayne W. Dyer

Respecting someone indicates the quality of your personality.

Mohammad Sakhi

There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.

Henri Amiel

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Gamaliel Bailey

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John W. Gardner

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Robert Michaels

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Louis D. Brandeis

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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Orson Welles

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Horst Koehler

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Buddha

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

E. W. Howe

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

D.B. Harrop

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

Thomas S. Monson

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.

R.G. Risch

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Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

Roy T. Bennett

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect.

Hermann Hesse

Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.

Ray Davis

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson

Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.

Hussein Nishah

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day, Jr.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’

Joe Biden

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Michelle Obama

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.

Hugh Jackman

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.

Charles Bayard Mitchell

In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

Kina Grannis

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Richard Bach

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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Dalai Lama

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Clint Eastwood

Respect yourself

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day

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

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

Larry Bird

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

Sofia Vergara

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

James A. Garfield

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Marilyn Monroe

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Harvey Milk