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~ Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. ~

~ Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. ~

Dale E. Turner

~ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. ~

Buddha

~ Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. ~

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

~ Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults. ~

William Attwood

~ Self-respect knows no considerations. ~

Mohandas K. Gandhi

~ Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ~

James Baldwin

~ The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. ~

Honor de Balzac

~ To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. ~

William Ellery Channing 1780

~ Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment ~

Seneca

~ What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust. ~

Vicomte de Valmont

~ Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do,cause hate in your heart will consume you too. ~

Will Smith

~ Relationships ó of all kinds ó are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but mostly it will be spilled. A relationships is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. ~

Kahlil Jamison

~ There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.î ~

Buck Rodgers

~ Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~

Abraham J. Heschel

~ Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ~

Unknown

~ One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself ~

Edgar Watson Howe

~ Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ~

Clint Eastwood

~ Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ~

Unknown

~ Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. ~

Gordon B. Hinckley

~ To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~

Joan Didion

~ They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~

Gandhi, Mahatma

~ Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success � for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect. ~

Forbes

~ Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~

Clark, Joe

~ Since when was genius found respectable? ~

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

~ I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ~

Edward Gibbon

~ One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny ~

Bertrand Russell

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