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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius, nalects, IV.11
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

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
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
US black nationalist leader (1925 - 1965)

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

J.B. Priestley

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter McArthur

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

William Hazlitt
English essayist (1778 - 1830)

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI
Italian scholar & pope 1922-1939 (1857 - 1939)

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 Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821 - 1881)

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

I submit that 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.
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Lawrence Sterne
Irish novelist & satirist (1713 - 1768)

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
US social worker, sociologist, & suffragist (1860 - 1935)

One should as a rule 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, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

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