Respect Quotes · Page 245

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

— Anonymous

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

— Dana Perino

Great moments are challenged by adversity, that builds character & forms a respect to the true value of life.

— Anonymous

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

— Jules Verne

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

— Jerry Lewis

Do you have any self respect??If you do just stay out from my way!!!

— MiSHRRA

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

— Michael Spinks

We have to take better care of each other and respect each other. Equality must be a priority. Anything less is unacceptable.

— Zdeno Chara

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states…

— James M Strock

I was raised by my grandmother, my mom, about five or six aunts and female cousins as well. We were all in…

— Daniel Jacobs

“Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont…

— Emily Dickinson

Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule. But love people who never look at their schedule to find…

— Savannah J

I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out.…

— Nadiya Hussain

“Democracies don't even withstand formally half educated citizens. Courtesy, respect, and sensibility don't tend to ethical sense. Nature nurtures, if compared to…

— Anonymous

I respect Canelo's ability and achievements but to me he is simply another fighter I need to beat. Just another step along…

— Rocky Fielding

“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are…

— Eli Weisel

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child;…

— Sybil Marshall

“The truth is, most wisdom is embittering. The task of the wise person cannot be to pretend with false naiveté that every…

— Philip Lopate

“I consider that in the current situation, it is unfitting for a representative of the people to be overzealous to the point…

— Manuel Lempereur

Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they…

— Joseph Hall

“One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. By explaining one’s decision to leave…

— Cheryl Strayed

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Though they were very dissimilar in character, they also shared many tastes and appetites, and those they didn’t share they tolerated in…

— Colleen McCullough

Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.

— Vladimir Jankelevitch

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

— James Madison

“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.”

— Charles Bayard Mitchell

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.

— Barack Obama

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

— Fiona Apple

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

— Jerome K. Jerome

You just got to be yourself. That's what people respect more than anything.

— Jalen Rose

“you don’t understand a thing! If you don’t respect others, you harm yourself. . . .”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm not afraid to fight for things I believe in, and I'm not afraid to respect people that have another point of…

— Erin O'Toole

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

— Noam Chomsky

“You should respect death and respect the dead, not out of fear, but because it's the proper human thing to do.”

— Tom Jokinen

We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

— Lazarus of Bethany

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

— Ishida Mitsunari

The U.K. should be treated with respect because it deserves respect.

— Miroslav Lajcak

When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished.

— Anonymous

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

— Corey Taylor