If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners, because you represent yourself, not others.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
" Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or make you happy. "
I don't play disrespect. I don't play dishonesty. I don't play disloyal. And I don't play sticking around to see whether or not you want to learn how to be any of the above. If it's not already present, I'm already a thing of the past. I won't settle for less than I deserve. Call it what you want. I call it standards.
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.This is to have succeeded.
“Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you".
― C. JoyBell
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Stephen
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
There is the type of compromise that allows us to accept other people's thoughts and ideas, and not put our own ideas higher than theirs, and there's the kind of compromise that lessens us as people when we do things that we know are wrong, simply for the sake of expediency or personal gain.
Never conclude a person by his present status. Because time has the great power to change a useless coal into a valuable diamond.
"Saying is one thing, doing is another- one must consider the sermon & d preacher distinctly & apart".
~George Bernard Shaw
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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky