You don’t earn respect by trying to be like everyone else. You have to be your true positive self and consistently hold your ground before people would start to respect the mental strength and originality...

Why belittle others and make a lot of enemies for yourself, when you could earn their utmost respect by teaching them some valuable things?

Respect isn’t automatically earned. You have to first position yourself with a level of mannerism that’s worth emulating, before others could see a strong reason to respect you.