Respect Quotes
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.Theodore Parke
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
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
Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame".
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
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.Clarence Thomas
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
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
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
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.Giuseppe Mazzini
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
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
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
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
Respect yourself most of all.Pythagorus
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
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
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.Norman Cousins
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
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 order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
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
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.J. B. Priestley
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
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
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.Albert Einstein
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
