Quotes About Respect

It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself.

No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.

The power of the journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power unless it is used aright.

Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled to precisely as much honor as those that went.

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

The chances are that if you begin taking care of your body with the right diet and regular exercise you will start to respect and like your body more.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.

To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even

To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.

Calling someone to reschedule wastes time and creates work for the other person. The time I've spent fixing double bookings in my life is time I'll never get back.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.

With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different.

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.