Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
—William Stafford
What you need is sustained outrage.… There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
—Molly Ivins
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
—Rita Rudner
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
—Gordon Atkinson
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
—Cicero
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
—Confucius
Respect a man, he will do the more.
—James Howell
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
—John Herschel
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
—Spanish Proverb
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
—William Hazlitt
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
—Peter Benchley
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
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
People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
—Rachel Hollis in Party Girl