Expressions of gratitude Quote by Gary L. Thomas

“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over—expectations,”

— Gary L. Thomas

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

— Alice Miller

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak,…

— Scott Spencer

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

— Ha Jin

“for all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his…

— Edmund Burke

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles…

— Henry Fielding

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked…

— Pamela Meyer

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

— Neal A. Maxwell

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

— Henry Fielding

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

— Ambrose Bierce

Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as…

— Zoe Weil