1. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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2. “Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.”

— Dale Carnegie

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3. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

— Maya Angelou

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4. “Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”

— Immanuel Kant

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5. “Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”

— Richard Branson

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6. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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7. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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8. “Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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9. “The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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10. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

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11. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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12. “Hustle, Loyalty, Respect.”

— John Cena

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13. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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14. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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15. “My religion is kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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17. “Love people, not things; use things, not people.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

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18. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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19. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

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20. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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21. “Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

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22. “You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.”

— John Wooden

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23. “I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.”

— Jack Ma

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24. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

— Chanakya

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25. “There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.”

— Robert M. Hensel

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26. “To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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27. “It’s OK to be different.”

— Gerard Way

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28. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

— Terry Pratchett

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29. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

— William Arthur Ward

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30. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

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31. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

— Audre Lorde

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32. “The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

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33. “Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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34. “Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.”

— Confucius

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35. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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36. “Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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37. “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”

— Rumi

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38. “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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39. “Learn to live in this world with self-respect.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

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40. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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41. “The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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42. “Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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43. “Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.”

— Joyce Meyer

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44. “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

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45. “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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46. “Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”

— Lady Gaga

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47. “I believe there is only one race – the human race.”

— Rosa Parks

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48. “Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.”

— Robby Novak

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49. “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

— Maya Angelou

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50. “Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.”

— Richard Branson

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