I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Ann Rinaldi
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  1. You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected. - Lorii Myers

  2. You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you. - Stephen Richards

  3. Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison. - Orson Scott Card

  4. In silence you shall face self...and have respect. - T.F. Hodge

  5. Respect, reverence, self-esteem Are my basic requisites I refuse to be a competitor Who struggles for personal rights - Balroop Singh

More Quotes By Ann Rinaldi
  1. You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

  2. When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.

  3. Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do...

  4. The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.

  5. He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and...

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