Quotes
Quotes about Respect
I had said good-bye to my warm, loving mother and elected for cold, uncertainty, sin, the horror of the normal and respectable, their claws, latent but acute
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing.
This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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.
Respect is love in plain clothes.
The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.
