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
Whenever you are too worried about someone else’s approval, that person loses respect for you.
—Sherry Argov in Why Men Marry Bitches
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
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
—Bertrand Russell
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
—Peter McArthur
Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.
—Sherry Argov in Why Men Love Bitches
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
—Robert Rice
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 mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
—Alice Miller
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.
—Eduardo Galeano
Show up on time. I learned this from the mentor who I call Bigfoot in Kitchen Confidential. If you didn’t show up 15 minutes exactly before your shift—if you were 13 minutes early—you lost the shift, you were sent home. The second time you were fired. It is the basis of everything. I make all my major decisions on other people based on that. Give the people you work with or deal with or have relationships with the respect to show up at the time you said you were going to. And by that I mean, every day, always and forever. Always be on time. It is a simple demonstration of discipline, good work habits, and most importantly respect for other people.
—Anthony Bourdain
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
—H. L. Mencken
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
—Georges Duhamel
Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman