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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #5
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
    Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #6
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #7
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #8
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #9
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.”
    Kurt Vonnegut , Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

  • #10
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #11
    William Paul Young
    “Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”
    Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

  • #12
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon

  • #14
    “Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.”
    Eiichiro Oda

  • #15
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #16
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.”
    Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

  • #17
    Socrates
    “Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
    Socrates

  • #18
    “The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.”
    Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq'ij of the Eagle Clan

  • #19
    Thomas A. Edison
    He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.

    {Edison's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}”
    Thomas Edison

  • #20
    Egon Schiele
    “I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
    Egon Schiele

  • #21
    Laurence Sterne
    “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
    Laurence Sterne

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “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 Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated



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