Respect Quotes

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

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.

I respect everyone. I even respect journalists.

Alexander Popov

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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 submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Respect yourself most of all.

Pythagorus

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

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

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U Thant

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Lawrence Sterne

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - - That doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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

The law respects form less than substance.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

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

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

William Hazlitt

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Buddha

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

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Clarence Thomas

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

Brutality creates respect.

Adolph Hitle

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.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

Wilson Mizne