Best 1328 quotes in «respect quotes» category

But respect yourself most of all.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Flatter yourself critically.

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

I always respect a woman.

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

I could never love where I could not respect.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

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.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

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 even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

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