When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

We may not pay devil reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Self-respect will kip a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and kip out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to kip out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea.