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We hope these encouraging and inspiring disrespect quotes and sayings make you mentally more assertive and independent.
First and foremost, never tolerate disrespect under any circumstances.
You have to clarify that your personality doesn’t put up with disrespect, even if it means casually.
It is believed that individuals who don’t respect themselves tend to be disrespectful towards others in relationships.
How to deal with toxic people?
Live life so that no mental space is ever given to others to demean you or take you for granted.
Since we look through the eyes of others and are desperate for social validation and appreciation from the other, we give the power and unnecessary space to determine who we are psychologically.
Firstly, I have the urge to understand who I am and not believe what others say about me. Relentlessly question everything. That is how one starts to have their own eyes, and authentic living happens.
Being said that, morons are found everywhere, sometimes inside ourselves too, and one has to be tough and know how to deal with them in different situations.
Depending on the situation, either give a befitting reply to the abuser or ignore it to keep your mental peace intact. Let it arise from your keen observation and inner clarity.
Best Disrespect Quotes and Sayings
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Contempt mates well with pity.
– Gloria Naylor
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
– Madame De Maintenon
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
– William Hazlitt
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
– Michael Caine
Ignoring a child’s disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.
– Fred G. Gosman
If they disrespect you to your face, imagine what they’re doing behind your back.
– Sonya Parker
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
– H. L. Mencken
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
– Bertrand Russell
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.
– Alice Miller
Disrespect cannot be commanded, it must be earned.
– Matthew Taberner
Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn’t a pass to treat you like trash!
– Trent Shelton
You don’t have permission to disrespect yourself.
– Martin De Maat
You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.
– Red Haircrow
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
– Berthold Auerbach
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
– Bill Watterson
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
– Euripides
The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we aught to be ashamed of.
– Tully
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
– Charles Caleb Colton
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
– Ralph Thomas Walker
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
– Christiane Amanpour
When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.
– Shannon L. Alder
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.
– Japanese Proverb
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several–from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
– Jean De La Bruyere
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
– John Locke
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
– Eric Hoffer
Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
– Confucius
A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance, without the least sense of it.
– Richard Steele
The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of.
– Cicero
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
– Theognis Of Megara
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.
– John Zimmerman
If the disagreement was strong enough, we could end up pretty close to the borderline of incivility.
– David Rockefeller
The insolence of wealth will creep out.
– Samuel Johnson
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
– David Rockefeller
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
– Margaret Deland
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
– William Hazlitt
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
– Henry Fielding
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
– Wilhelm Reich
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
– Steven Brust
There is no nobility with bad manners.
– Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved.
– Russell Lynes
Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.
– O.R. Melling
Never insult anyone by accident.
– Robert A. Heinlein
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
– Margaret Deland
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
– William Hazlitt
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
– Henry Fielding
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.
– Wilhelm Reich
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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