Respect Quotes

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

Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect.

Jason DeBruin, The poem "Temporary Shame".

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius, Analects

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

J. B. Priestley

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

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

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Respect yourself most of all.

Pythagorus

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Prove

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

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

Cicero

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

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

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

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles De Gaulle

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

Wilson Mizne

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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