Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.  

              —Edgar Watson Howe

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

                      —Marcus Aurelius

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.      —Lao Tzu

To have the sense of one’s own intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love, and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.                                 

                              —Joan Didion

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises them.

—James Baldwin

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.              

                                      —Buddha

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

—Brian Tracey

Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.            

                         —Annie Gottlieb

True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others.      

                         —Virginia Moore

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.                                  

                           —Pearl S. Buck