Respect Quotes

"They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers."
-Tom Krause

"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."
-Laurence Sterne

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."
-Louis Pasteur

"While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment."
-Confucius

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
-Confucius

"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."
-Cicero

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."
-John Herschel

"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
-Abraham J. Heschel

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
-William Hazlitt

"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it."
-Andy Partridge

"We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment."
-Lillian Carter

"The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here."
-Don Mattingly

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
-Abraham J. Heschel

"Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time."
-Robert Half

"Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others."
-Pema Chodron

"Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves."
-Peter McArthur

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
-William Lyon Phelps

"We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige."
-Barry Goldwater

"Respect a man, he will do the more."
-James Howell

"Respect, don't suspect."
-H. H. Swami Tejomayananda

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this."
-Albert Einstein

"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made."
-Mark Twain

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."
-Mark Twain

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."
-George Bernard Shaw