Respect Quotes

Welcome to these quotes about Respect and Self Respect. Your happiness depends upon respecting yourself (honoring yourself), respecting the opinions and actions of others, and to a lesser extent, upon earning the respect of friends, family, and your community.

Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect and the absence of ego.
Love yourself. Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance, as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth. Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet, "I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I Honor myself, I am confident of my being, and I am gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Affirmation: I Honor My True Self - I grant myself the Honor of being ME. I am unique in all time and space. I am beyond perceived scarcity, obligation, and the need for approval. I am Honored that Spirit has chosen to create ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain

What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
- Henry Miller

The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences.
- Chinese Saying

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
- Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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