Respect Quotes

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Alice Walker

"Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it."

Brené Brown

"You teach people how to treat you."

Phil McGraw

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table."

Louise Hart

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

Lucille Ball

"You've been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

Louise Hay

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

"Disagreement is something normal."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes."

Maggie Kuhn

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

William James

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

Abigail Van Buren

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."

Thomas Merton

"Treat with reverence due to age the elders in your own family, so that the elders in the families of others shall be similarly treated."

Mencius

"Filial piety is the root of virtue."

Confucius

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

William Arthur Ward

"Teachers should be the best minds in the country."

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

"Work is worship."

Basavanna

"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means."

Immanuel Kant

"Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override."

John Rawls