Perhaps it’s not the message that you ought to be conveying. Beyond a certain base value (perhaps residual, from other people in a person’s life; “I respect your parents, and you by proxy”), respect is earned, not given. Some people – quite a few, really – comport themselves more or less respectably. Others do not.
I work as part of a four-man team; we are rotated through a single job, three per sixteen-hour day. One guy always worked fast and well, in spite of a tendency to lock eyes onto certain of our customers’ backsides now and then at the expense of all else. I respected his speed and skill. Another guy managed to do everything wrong, even little things like preparing boxes, or showing up the day after we got paid. He stopped coming to work before I was able to find something about him that I could respect, beyond basic personhood.
Perhaps “People should respect you in accordance with who you are.”