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Quotes About Respect

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
~ Loren Eiseley
Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.
~ Mae West
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Few men are admired by their servants.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
~ Nelson Mandela
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.
~ Paul Gleason
The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
~ Peter Ustinov
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
~ Philip Sidney
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
~ Plautus
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
~ Plautus
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
~ Plutarch
When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
~ Rajneesh
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.
~ Richard Alleine
"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."
~ Robert Southey
With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
~ Samuel Richardson