Respect Quotes

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Thomas Huxley

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Spanish Prove

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw

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, The Prince

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

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 case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892

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

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Emerson

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 owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

Steve Pershing

I respect everyone. I even respect journalists.

Alexander Popov

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

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

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

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

Thomas Jefferson

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

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

William Hazlitt

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Prove

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Lawrence Sterne

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.

Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

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

Wilson Mizne

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U Thant

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

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

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

Francis Jeffrey

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagan