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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This quote is just one of 18 total Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes in our collection. Fyodor Dostoevsky is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves.
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
This quote is just one of 18 total Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes in our collection. Fyodor Dostoevsky is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.