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A daughter who respects you while you’re alive is far better than a son who performs the rites and rituals after you’re gone.

Sanu Sharma

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973)

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.'

Benito Juárez

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 The Insulted and the Injured (1861)

If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.

Eugene V. Debs The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

Stephen Colbert

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art — this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

John F. Kennedy

If anyone possesses this faculty, then his attention is in reality directed beyond the world, whether he is aware of it or not.

Simone Weil Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943)

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847)

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. This, as the sages of many lands have taught us, is a golden rule in individual and group, as well as international, relations.

U Thant Portfolio for Peace (1968)

Respect yourself, if you want others to respect you.

Adolph Freiherr Knigge

Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.

Alfred Nobel

RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Charles Murray

Civilities should never be declined when they are sincerely meant as proofs of respect.

Richard Duppa

The born leader is a fiction invented by 'born followers'. Leadership is not a gift at birth; it is an award for growing to full moral stature. It is the only prize that a man must win everyday. The prize is the respect of others, earned by the disciplines that generate self-respect.

Wheeler L. Baker The Cadence (2009)

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