Respect Quotes
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
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
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
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 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
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.
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame".
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.
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
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
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.Jodie Foste
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.Albert Einstein
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
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
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.Robert H Bork
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
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.Hubert H. Humphrey
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.Norman Douglas
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
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
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.Malcolm X
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
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
Respect yourself most of all.Pythagorus
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.Mark Twain
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
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
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.Norman Cousins
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
