Respect Quotes
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame".
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.Mark A. Clement
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.Norman Douglas
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle - Class respectability.Oscar Wilde
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.Millicent Carey McIntosh
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.U Thant
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.Oren Arnold
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.Mao Zedong
Respect yourself and others will respect you.Confucius
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.Sir Walter Scott
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.William Hazlitt
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.Albert Einstein
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.Confucius, nalects, IV. 11
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.William Lyon Phelps
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.Francis Jeffrey
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.Joe Clark
The law respects form less than substance.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.Richard T. Ely
Brutality creates respect.Adolph Hitle
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.Jodie Foste
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
