Famous Quotes

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

Maya Angelou on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

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

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by Maya Angelou

• "We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

• "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."