Baltasar Gracian: ''Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.''
Bryant H. McGill: ''One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.''
Confucius: ''Respect yourself and others will respect you.''
D.B. Harrop: ''In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.''
Edmond Mbiaka: ''Respect comes in two unchangeable steps: Giving it and receiving it.''
Eldridge Cleaver: ''Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.''
Frank Barron: ''Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.''
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: ''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. ''
Gary Chapman: ''Respect begins with this attitude: I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth.''
Hussein Nishah: ''Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.''
Jean Vanier: ''When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.''
John Cogley: ''Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.''
Lao-Tzu: ''When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.''
Laurence Sterne: ''Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.''
Mitch Albom: ''This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.''
Paul Tillich: ''The first duty of love is to listen.''
Persian Proverb: ''He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.''
R.G. Risch: ''Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it.''
Ray Davis: ''Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.''
Stephen Cosgrove: ''Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it's covered for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.''
Thomas Paine: ''Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.''
Thomas S. Monson: ''When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.''
William J. H. Boetcker: ''That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.''