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Loyalty And Respect Quotes

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Marilyn Monroe

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey

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

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracian

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

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