Respect Quotes
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.G. K. Chesterton
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
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
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.William Wharton
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.Frank Herbert
I have been both rich and poor - - while I have respect for both, I am unimpressed and unawed by both as well.John A. Field
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non - Material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.Paul Sweezy
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.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
The law respects form less than substance.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
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, The Prince
He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.J. Hawes
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
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
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
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
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Respect yourself and others will respect you.Confucius
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.
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.Seneca
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Respect a man, he will do the more.James Howell
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.Whitney Moore, Jr.
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
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
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
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
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.Millicent Carey McIntosh
