“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: Sayings of Confucius
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: Sayings of Confucius
“Respect yourself, if you want others to respect you.”
Adolph Freiherr Knigge book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Book 1, Chapter 2, Section 5.
Variant: ""Have a proper regard for yourself if you wish to be esteemed by others.""
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Humiliated and Insulted
The Insulted and the Injured (1861)
Context: 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.
“To be yourself in all respects is the truest form of respect towards anyone.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Essere te stesso a tutti gli effetti è la più reale forma di rispetto nei confronti di chiunque.
Source: prevale.net
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Variant: If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
Source: City of Ashes
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)