Respect

Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion and respect to your own journey.

Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion and respect to your own journey.

Sylvester McNutt

The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it.

The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.

An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.

Danish proverbs

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Better silence than ill speech.

Better silence than ill speech.

Swedish proverbs

If you let them lay the calf on your back it will not be long before they chip on the cow.

If you let them lay the calf on your back it will not be long before they chip on the cow.

Italian proverbs

Love your neighbor, but do not pull down the hedge.

Love your neighbor, but do not pull down the hedge.

German proverbs

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.

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 Dostoyevsky

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.

Jefferson Davis

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein