Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: “What you say about me is what I am” is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect.

—Stephanie Marston

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People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

—Rachel Hollis in Party Girl

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Being straightforward doesn't mean you have to be rude or harsh. There's always a way to be open and honest while also being respectful. Anyone who behaves otherwise is just being lazy.

—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse

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I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Interrupted

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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

—Peter Benchley

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

—William Hazlitt

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