Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? – Abdul Kalam
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. – Nathaniel Branden
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. – Mitt Romney
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I hate victims who respect their executioners. – Jean-Paul Sartre
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. – Bertrand Russell
Respect the burden. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. – Bertrand Russell
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. – Albert Schweitzer
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. – Hillary Clinton
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. – T. S. Eliot
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love. – Honore de Balzac
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. – Ralph W. Sockman
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. – James A. Baldwin
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. – Jim Carrey
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. – Walter Hagen
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. – William Hazlitt
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. – Miguel Angel Ruiz
