Respect Quote by Ian C.P. Irvine

“It did not matter how much or what a person owned or had, for without self-respect, a person had nothing. It was the most…

— Ian C.P. Irvine

“Nothing mattered to him about a person other than what was inside them.”

— Heather Graham

“There was a certain satisfaction to it, not owning anything and not being owned.”

— Mary Paulson-Ellis

“I who have nothing may have nothing, but I'll always have something that you don't. And that's respect.”

— Roberto Flores

“He felt that anything he wanted ought to be his no matter what.”

— Jeff Guinn

“I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by…

— David Foster Wallace

“You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.”

— Saul Bellow

“How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?”

— Milan Kundera

“Making something out of nothing made me feel like I was important, like I had value.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“It was understandable, then, that the worth of a person was not measured in the things he or she owned, but in the deeds…

— Joseph M. Marshall III

“She was nothing. He had everything. And for what little it was worth, he was embarrassed by his own strength.”

— Courtney Milan

“Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.”

— John Flanagan