respect quotes

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Respect the burden.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.