If you want to be respected, respect yourself.
More Spanish Proverbs:
If you pay what you owe, what you're worth you'll know.Spanish
The lean dog is all fleas.
Spanish
Copper begets copper, and not (the labour of) men's bones.
Spanish
He who loves well, obeys well.
Spanish
I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.
Spanish
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Spanish