Respect Quotes

Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

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

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

Jesse Louis Jackson

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

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Buddha

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

William Hazlitt

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Brutality creates respect.

Adolph Hitle

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

R. C. Samsel

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

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

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

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

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

Millicent Carey McIntosh

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

The law respects form less than substance.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.

Richard T. Ely

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 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 is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

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

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

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