We teach people how to treat us. If you don’t settle for anything less than respect, that’s what you’ll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like you’re disposable, then that’s what you’ll always get.
—Kristen Proby in Play With Me
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People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
—Rachel Hollis in Party Girl
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
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
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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