Respect Quotes

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius, Analects

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII

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

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

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

In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

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

William Hazlitt

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

William Lyon Phelps

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

Steve Pershing

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

Senator William Grayson

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Prove

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles De Gaulle

Respect a man, he will do the more.

James Howell

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

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas

Brutality creates respect.

Adolph Hitle

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow

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

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizne

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Thomas Huxley

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

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

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)

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

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

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

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

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Will Cuppy

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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