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Quotes about Respect


If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

John Lao-tzu

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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

René G. Torres

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

William Shakespeare

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Dave Barry

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself

Abraham J. Heschel

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizner

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.

A. A. Unknown

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.

General Edward Stuyvesant Bragg

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Edna St. Vincent Saki

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Edna St. Vincent Saki

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

William Wordsworth

A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.

Philip R. Breeze

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 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing

A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.

Philip R. Breeze

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps

For there is no respect of persons with God.

Francis Bible

You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold.

William Shakespeare

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

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