Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.