Respect Quotes
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.Francis Jeffrey
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
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
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.Albert Camus
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
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
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 way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.William Hazlitt
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.Whitney Moore, Jr.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.William Hazlitt
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 have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.Georges Duhamel
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
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
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
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
But respect yourself most of all.Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
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
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.Albert Einstein
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.Bertrand Russell
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
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
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 of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.Charles Baudelaire
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.Jesse Louis Jackson
