Respect famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
-- Abdus Salam -
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
-- Adam Rich -
Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.
-- Adam Rich -
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-- Albert Camus -
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
-- Albert Einstein -
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.
-- Alexander P. de Seversky -
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
-- Angela Carter -
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
-- Angelo Scola -
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-- Anna Gould -
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
-- Anna Quindlen -
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 .
-- Anne Bronte -
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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 -
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
-- Anton Chekhov -
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
-- Anwar Sadat -
We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle -
Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
-- Arjuna Ardagh -
There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero -
Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
-- Ava Gardner -
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-- Axel Munthe -
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
-- Ayn Rand -
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
-- Barry Bonds -
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
-- Barry Gibb -
We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
-- Barry Goldwater -
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.
-- Benjamin Spock -
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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 -
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
-- Bill Bradley -
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
-- Billy Crystal -
When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
-- Blaine Lee Pardoe -
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
-- Bono -
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 -
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
-- Bruce Lee -
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.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
-- Bryan Singer -
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.
-- C. Everett Koop -
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 -
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
-- C. Wright Mills -
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
-- Carl Jung -
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
-- Carl Sagan -
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
-- Carole King -
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.
-- Cary Grant -
I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.
-- Catherine Bell -
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
-- Charles Dickens -
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.
-- Charles Kingsley -
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
-- Charles M. Vest -
disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.
-- Charlotte Armstrong -
There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.
-- Chief Dan George -
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.
-- Chief Seattle -
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
-- Chris Lowe -
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
-- Chris Ware -
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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.
-- Christopher Wren -
Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
-- Clarence Day -
The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
-- Clarence H. Burns -
Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.
-- Claudia Black -
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 -
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
-- Confucius -
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-- Cyril Connolly -
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
-- Dan Glickman -
When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
-- Danica McKellar -
I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
-- Darius Rucker -
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
-- Darrell Royal -
What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.
-- Dave Barry -
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 -
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
-- Davy Crockett -
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
-- Dick Gregory -
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
-- Dominique Pire -
The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr. -
We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff -
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 -
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
-- E. W. Howe -
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
-- Ed Koch -
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
-- Edward Gibbon -
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
-- Edward Irving -
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
-- Eldridge Cleaver -
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
-- Eli Whitney -
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.
-- Elise M. Boulding -
Since when was genius found respectable?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
