When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.

The more you give, the more you get.

Take over the school, take over the town, take over the worlds. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect....

All I can give you is nothin except respectonly if you could digest it with no suspect.

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Tikrąją tavo šeimą sieja ne kraujo ryšys, o pagarba ir džiaugsmas, kuriuos randate vienas kito gyvenime. Vienos šeimos nariai retai išauga po tuo pačiu stogu.

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace – a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we’re in, comes up with ways of dealing with...

You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself… It’s never too late!

Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!

In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I was a boy on the farm a relative of ours had testified in...

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

I want people to respect me and not just my position.

We must protect and share the world.

It is important how people take you.

There is no love without respect.There isn’t much truth if spoken without genuine honesty.

I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me

As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders...

It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing...

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

I had a dream about you. You fell into my arms like a 120-pound sack of gold coins. So I did what any respectable lover would do—I buried you in the backyard so nobody could...

It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way

While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal....

Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses.

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

Every woman is beautiful so every woman deserves to be loved and respected by a true man

You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

…what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes – and fail to honor who they are …

Had she any respect for him at all, his words would’ve affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.

I also had to come tonight to apologize. If you need to go to Mexico to finish this process off, then I understand. I was wrong to criticize you for it or even imply that...

The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.

How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible...

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.

To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect.

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity’s great aspirations.

We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions.

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong...

I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned — it cannot be self-respect if it’s not earned — and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility...

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to...

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

Women want respect but are let down by those of them who don’t respect themselves. Several men use this as an excuse to disrespect women. We are born with this as the norm and not...

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

With a person I respect, I wash my hands before I shake their hand. With a person I don’t respect, I wash my hands after I shake their hand.

I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to...