There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri 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
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. — Willis Lamb 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
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
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — 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 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
A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume 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
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
If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune;It is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems… — La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves… — Yuriy Tarnawsky 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
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned. — George Stephanopoulos 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
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
Courts have paid a lot of deference to post-secondary institutions if they've done their work properly. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper 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
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f4/ouida-3651_avarice_on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its_1641749.png)
![“[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.” quote by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7a/william-lamb-2nd-viscount-melb_ability_f-riends-praise-your-abilities-to-the-sk_653277.png)
![“[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.” quote by George Stephanopoulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ed/george-stephanopoulos-7418_barack_donald-trump-deference-to-the-president_2171139.png)
