Ireland Baldwin Quotes

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

I'm not better than anyone else.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

All I want is respect.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.

I would like to be re-considered as a person.

My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose.

I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

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

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.