Respect Quotes

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Lawrence Sterne

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

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

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

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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 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

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

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.

I respect everyone. I even respect journalists.

Alexander Popov

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

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

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

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

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

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 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 faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizne

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003

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

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

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

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

Cicero

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

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Respect yourself most of all.

Pythagorus

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

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

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

William Hazlitt

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Louis Jackson

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee