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Short Respect Quotes

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Edgar Watson Howe

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational Respect Quotes

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein

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

Deep Respect Quotes

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

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.

Winston Churchill

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Anthony Trollope

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Elizabeth Bowen

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

Barbara Boxer

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

More Respect Quotes

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

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

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

Bryant H. McGill

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton

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.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Robert Casey

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

John W. Gardner

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

Malcolm X

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

Timothy Radcliffe

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

Christiane Amanpour

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Terri Windling

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

Robert Casey

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

John Updike

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

James Broughton

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

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Robert B. Parker

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Walter Annenberg

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.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Horst Koehler

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Thomas Szasz

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

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Joan Didion

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

Christiane Amanpour

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

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

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Georges Duhamel

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

William Dean Howells

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

George Murray

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Dorothy Denning

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Sargent Shriver

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Sydney Smith

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

William Cobbett

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

John Ashcroft

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Max Baucus

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