Respect Quotes
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
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
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.Malcolm X
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
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
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
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.Thomas Jefferson
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
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
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
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
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
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
Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...Senator William Grayson
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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
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
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.William Hazlitt
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
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.U Thant
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.Cicero
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.Norman Cousins
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.Millicent Carey McIntosh
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.
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
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Respect yourself and others will respect you.Confucius
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.Georges Duhamel
