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Quotes About Respect

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
~ Russell Lynes
Not all men are worthy of love.
~ Sigmund Freud
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
~ Sigmund Freud
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
~ Thucydides
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
~ Victor Hugo
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
~ Voltaire
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
~ William Gilmore Simms
An honest man is respected by all parties.
~ William Hazlitt
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
~ Alexander Pope
I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'anti-men'. I'm just 'Thumbs up for the six billion
~ Caitlin Moran
When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.
~ Thomas Yellowtail
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
~ Tommy Franks
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
~ Henry Adams
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
~ James F. Cooper
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
All that I can say about Owen Hart, is that I hope that I can be, as good a man as him, so that I can see him again, someday.
~ Jim Ross
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
~ Confucius