Top 100 Respect Yourself Quotes
#2. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
Ayad Akhtar
#3. Give yourself permission to change your world and others around you, in a positive way, with love and respect.
Tasha Hoggatt
#4. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.
Alan Sugar
#5. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to
self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
#6. If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.
Stephen Chbosky
#7. To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.
Lorii Myers
#9. You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K.d. Lang
#10. Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice and follow it.
Osho
#11. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
Tae Yun Kim
#13. You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.
Marshall Sylver
#14. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#15. Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.
Pete Townshend
#16. You are not defined by the clothes on your body, the shoes on your feet, or the money in your pocket. You are defined by the choices you make, the character that you choose to have, and the respect you show yourself and to those around you.
Quinn Loftis
#17. You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. Above all things, respect yourself.
Pythagoras
#19. Respect you love one enough to know thay can handle your truth
Iyanla Vanzant
#20. Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power.
Auliq Ice
#21. I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
Randy Harrison
#22. Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.
Karen Salmansohn
#23. Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.
George Washington
#24. Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.
Greg Proops
#25. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#26. If they don't respect you, respect yourself and leave that situation.
Mohammad
#28. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.
Scottie Thompson
#29. Most Pagans are in agreement, treat yourself, others, animals and nature with respect. Just like many other religions the Pagan belief system often incorporates a desire to be a good person, kind, and understanding. There is no spread of hatred or violence.
Ginger Valentine
#30. Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.
D.B. Harrop
#31. If we not Respecting Ourselves how can give Respect to Others.
Jan Jansen
#32. The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.
Auliq Ice
#33. The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.
James Van Der Beek
#34. Your ideal life is your real life. Be true to yourself and honor your preferences.
Maria Erving
#36. Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.
William Least Heat-Moon
#37. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.
Carlos Barrios
#38. To gain the respect of others, you must first think you deserve respect. And the more respect you have for yourself, the more respect others will have for you.
David J. Schwartz
#39. In silence you shall face self ... and have respect.
T.F. Hodge
#40. The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words.
Auliq Ice
#41. You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself ... It's never too late!
Steve Maraboli
#42. So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.
Brian Molko
#43. Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#44. I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
Clive Owen
#45. Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you will ever have because you are the only person with whom you will spend every moment of your life. Treat yourself with kindness, courtesy, and respect. Cherish who you are!
Karlyle Tomms
#46. Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
Jay Kay
#47. You have to love and respect yourself enough to not let people use and abuse you. You have to set boundaries and keep them, let people clearly know how you won't tolerate to be treated, and let them know how you expect to be treated.
Jeanette Coron
#48. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#49. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.
Karen Karbo
#51. How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.
Keyshawn Johnson
#52. If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!
Paolo Koeljo
#53. Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Nikki Giovanni
#54. You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
Elizabeth Edwards
#55. Stop rejecting that unique pathway that was designed exclusively for you. Embrace your destiny, respect yourself and love others.
Auliq Ice
#56. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.
Jose Mujica
#57. Learning to say No can earn you respect from yourself as well those around you.
Auliq Ice
#58. This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect - first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others.
William Ury
#59. Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and researched for over a decade. According to the theories, mutual respect and effective communication are key.
Liz Miller
#60. Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.
Marcus Aurelius
#61. You can't immerse yourself in something," Prof said softly, "without coming to respect it.
Brandon Sanderson
#62. Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.
Turcois Omine
#63. Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.
Trent Reznor
#64. The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
Joel Osteen
#66. Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
F.X. Toole
#67. It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.
Nathaniel Branden
#68. A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Jena Malone
#69. Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
Red Adair
#70. Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.
Claudia Black
#71. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.
Jennifer DeLucy
#72. You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.
Mila Kunis
#73. If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell.
Shannon L. Alder
#74. Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but vibrating at different frequencies), then you must respect yourself and everything and everyone around you.
Stephen Richards
#75. I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.
Nikki Sixx
#76. You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
Zac Posen
#78. Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs
don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.
Charity Shumway
#79. Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#80. I have been all over this world of ours and I have found only one truth to be universal no matter what culture, people or country, I have visited. If you there with an open hand, an open heart, a smile, and demonstrating a little respect for those you me, you will always find yourself welcome.
Michael Leslie
#81. I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
#82. Start a daily routine of looking at yourself in the mirror through a lens of unconditional love, appreciation, admiration and respect....Connect with the soul behind the image of you in the mirror. Look upon yourself with complete adoration, acceptance and non- judgement.
Miya Yamanouchi
#83. When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.
Guido Palau
#84. Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.
Marty Rubin
#85. If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].
Richard Gere
#86. Answering your calling inspires self-respect. It is not the accolades of others, but the choice to acknowledge yourself, choose yourself and answer your God-given calling that is the reward.
Shannon Tanner
#87. You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
Paulo Coelho
#88. Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.
Robert Black
#89. I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
Little Milton
#90. I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.
Liz Goldwyn
#91. When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
Brian Tracy
#92. Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone's pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.
Jennifer Hudson
#94. Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
Lamar Odom
#95. If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs ... Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.
Terry Goodkind
#96. Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.
Jane Porter
#98. Being called Mr. with respect is better than being called as Dr. with bitterness.
Sarvesh Jain
#99. You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.
Gary Hopkins
#100. If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
Epictetus
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