respect
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘respect’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.” -Stendhal
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“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.” -Rita Rudner
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“I’m an atheist, but I’m very relaxed about it. I don’t preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.” -Alice…
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“I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.” -E. O. Wilson
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“First and foremost, I’m a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.” -Kathy Najimy
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“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.” -Joseph Joubert
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“Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we’ve all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.” -Sophia Bush
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“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.” -Andre Gide
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“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.” -William Lyon Phelps
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“You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.” -Edward Koch
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“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.” -Walter Hagen
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“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.” -Samuel Butler
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“The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We’ve spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren’t they paying for it? They don’t like Qaddafi, Qaddafi’s been a terrible thorn in their side.” -Donald Trump
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“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don’t respect.” -Sandra Cisneros
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“It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.” -Jasmine Guy
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“Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.” -Kiana Tom
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“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“You’ve just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn’t help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it’s easy to say and harder to do.” -Nicole Kidman
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“I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.” -Sofia Vergara
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“Respect… is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.” -Annie Gottlieb
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“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.” -Jose Mourinho
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“Mankind is like dogs, not gods – as long as you don’t get mad they’ll bite you – but stay mad and you’ll never be bitten. Dogs don’t respect humility and sorrow.” -Jack Kerouac
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“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.” -E. M. Forster
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“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.” -Malcolm X
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“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.” -Colin Powell
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“I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.” -Hillary Clinton
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“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.” -George Santayana
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“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Don’t ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don’t mean they’re not an important person. You just don’t ever know who you’re gonna meet in life. So that’s why I look at everybody as equal. Can’t just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every…
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“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.” -T. S. Eliot
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“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.” -Jerry Falwell
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“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” -Anton Chekhov
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“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.” -Honore de Balzac
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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.” -James Madison
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“I’m not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.” -Samuel L. Jackson
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“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.” -Bette Davis
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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” -Orson Welles
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“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.” -Ralph W. Sockman
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“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.” -James A. Baldwin
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“I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.” -Jim Carrey
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“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.” -Abdul Kalam
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“With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.” -Bertrand Russell
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“We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.” -Michelle Obama
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“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.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.” -Mike Tyson
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“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.” -Aldo Leopold
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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.” -Audre Lorde
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“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“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
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“I hate victims who respect their executioners.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Find your self-respect now. Don’t dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It’s so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.” -Danica McKellar
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“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can’t eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as ‘progress’, doesn’t spread.” -Andy Rooney
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“Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.” -Larry Bird
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“I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.” -Richard Bach
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“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”…
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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing – if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.” -Frank Sinatra
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“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.” -Tim Allen
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“We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.” -Mitt Romney
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“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?” -Richard Dawkins
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“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.” -Maya Angelou
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“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” -Mother Teresa
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“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” -Winston Churchill
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“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.” -Amy Grant
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“I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.” -Summer Altice
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“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” -Dalai Lama
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“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” -Confucius
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“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
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” -C. S. Lewis
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“When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.” -Michael Jordan
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“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” -Aristotle
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“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
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“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” -H. L. Mencken
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“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” -Albert Einstein
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“Never dress down for the poor. They won’t respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.” -Imelda Marcos
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“Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.” -Alphonsus Liguori
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“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.” -Vera Wang
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“Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.” -Lakhdar Brahimi
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“Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.” -Robert Casey
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“It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.” -Estelle Parsons
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“Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.” -John Updike
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“I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.” -Leon Kass
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“I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.” -Eli Whitney
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“People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.” -Jennifer Capriati
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“But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.” -Chaka Khan
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“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” -Billy Graham
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” -Bruce Lee
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“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.” -William J. H. Boetcker
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“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” -Julius Erving
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“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” -Tecumseh
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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.” -Voltaire
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“It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.” -Brendan Behan
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“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.” -Margaret Mead
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“The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it’s really all about them.” -Robbie Coltrane
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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” -Salvador Dali
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“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” -Stockwell Day
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“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” -J. D. Salinger
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“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” -Bono
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“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” -Joan Didion
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“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” -Jackie Robinson
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” -Lao Tzu
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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” -Mark Twain
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“Respect is what we owe love, what we give.” -Philip James Bailey
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“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” -Clint Eastwood
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“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” -Albert Camus
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“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” -Laurence Sterne
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