Respect is a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. Self-respect and respecting others is an essential part of life to have humility and gratitude. Here are some respectful quotes that you can follow.
1.“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
Albert Einstein
2.“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
Roy T. Bennet
3.“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
4.“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston S. Churchill
5.“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
Steve Maraboli
6.“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
7.“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8.“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
Steve Hall
9.“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
Laurence Sterne
10.“Awe and respect are two different things.”
Oliver Reed
11.“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
12.“The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection of your own self-respect.”
Alex Elle
13.“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”
Billy Graham
14.“Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance.”
Abdul Kalam
15.“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Dr. Seuss
16.“True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.”
Ralph W. Sockman
17.“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
Laurence Sterne
18.“No boundary off area surrounds the heart of a person that lost their self and others.”
Shannon L. Alder
19.“Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.”
Mona Sutphen
20.“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
21.“Respect is for those who deserve not for those who demand it.”
Paulo Coelho
22.“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
23.“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel