Respect yourself and others will respect you

In the world consisting of many people who want to hurt and judge you, it's hard as hell to respect yourself. But it is essential. The first thing to be done is to figure out what you respect yourself for, and others will soon begin to do the same. That's because humans act like sheep really behave like sheep in a herd. They see someone acting a certain way and start repeating it. Just like millions of lemmings and hamsters. Derek Sievers told at the TED Conference about one guy who started dancing and everyone followed his movements (or maybe he just drank a glass of pink wine). When you respect yourself expressing it a loud and proud manner - chances that everyone will do the same grow. And even if they don't, you'll anyway have a whole bag of self-respect, and that's cool.