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Confucius

488 BC·State of Cai

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky·1915

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.

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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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When you are content to be simply yourself, everybody will respect you.

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