Respect Quotes

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

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

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.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

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.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

The first duty of love is to listen.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

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

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

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

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

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.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!