Respect proverbs

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

- Clint Eastwood99

◆ When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

- Laurence Sterne99

◆ An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.99

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

- Abraham Joshua Heschel99

◆ Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

- Philip James Bailey99

◆ The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

- William Lyon Phelps99

◆ I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

- Tupac Shakur99

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

- Edward Gibbon99

◆ Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

- Barry Bonds99

◆ I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery99

◆ To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

- Bono99

◆ Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

- Baltasar Gracian99

◆ As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

- Stockwell Day99