A collection of quotations

on the virtue of Respect

My religion is kindness.

the Dalai Lama

Remember, they pray to the same God.

Abraham Lincoln,

speaking of the southerners

after the Civil War

I learned the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship.

Bahá'u'lláh

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

Strong One, make me strong.
May all beings look on me with the eye of friend!
May I look on all beings with the eye of friend!
May we look on one another with the eye of friend!

Yajur Veda

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another—for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every human being is of equal importance and has work to do in the world.

Peace Pilgrim

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Hellen Keller

Always try to see yourself through God’s eyes.

Stephen Levine

Success is to stand in the presence of God unashamed.

author unknown

You’re better than no one and no one is better than you.

Bob Dylan

Think often of the bond that unites all things in the universe, and their dependence upon one another. All are, as it were, interwoven, and in consequence linked in mutual affection.

Marcus Aurelius

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