“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to… — Pete Wells Copy Share Image
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I take sporting criticism on board very keenly and with deference, and I also try to make decisions based on it. — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
There's great power in deference. You ask somebody 'what' or 'how' questions. People love to be asked how to do something. They… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The next morning, I worked out at Murakami’s dojo in Asakusa. When I arrived, the men who were already training paused and… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“Admitting that you need to learn something new is always difficult. It is even harder if you are a senior manager who… — Andrew S. Grove Copy Share Image
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
Courts have paid a lot of deference to post-secondary institutions if they've done their work properly. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image