Respect Quotes
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle - Class respectability.Oscar Wilde
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.Albert Einstein
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
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
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
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
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.
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
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.Peter McArthu
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.Georges Duhamel
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
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.Joe Clark
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.Persian Prove
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
I respect everyone. I even respect journalists.Alexander Popov
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 respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
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
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.Mao Zedong
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
