Best 1328 quotes in «respect quotes» category

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

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

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

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

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.