Respect Quotes

6363 Respect quotes by 3731 unique authors

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. — Peter Benchley
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about… — Unknown Author
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. — Samuel Johnson
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself,… — Cesar Chavez
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness… — Cesar Chavez
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We… — Cesar Chavez
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. — J. G. Holland
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. — William Hazlitt
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life. — Pablo Casals
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. — Aesop
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. — Thucydides
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie,… — Grace Paley
The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to… — Tony Blair
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does… — Thomas A. Edison
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt… — Henry A. Kissinger
If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much… — LeBron James
Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But… — Yao Ming
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent.… — Anne Hathaway

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