Respect Quotes
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.Bertrand Russell
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.Sybil Marshall
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.Cicero
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.John Fellows Akers
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.Edward Gibbon
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.Sir George Savile
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.Clarence Thomas
Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.H. L. Mencken
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
I respect everyone. I even respect journalists.Alexander Popov
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.George Bernard Shaw
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.R. C. Samsel
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.Jodie Foste
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
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
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Brutality creates respect.Adolph Hitle
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
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
