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Quotes About Respect

Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.
~ Henry Bullinger
Off with your hat as the flag goes by!
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to love.
~ Henry Drummond
Do you know the meaning of the word 'gentleman'? It means someone who does things gently. That is the whole art and mystery of Love.
~ Henry Drummond
Our employees are like extended members of our family.
~ Henry Ford
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
~ Henry Ford
And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.
~ Henry Ford
I'm glad you like adverbs—I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
~ Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
~ Henry James
I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
~ Henry James
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably
~ Henry Kissinger
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies
~ Henry Kissinger
Still, China was not a missionary society in the Western sense of the term. It sought to induce respect, not conversion; that subtle line could never be crossed. Its mission was its performance, which foreign societies were expected to recognize and acknowledge. It was possible for another country to become a friend, even an old friend, but it could never be treated as China's peer.
~ Henry Kissinger
I want to express here my continuing respect and personal affection for President George W. Bush, who guided America with courage, dignity, and conviction in an unsteady time. His objectives and dedication honored his country even when in some cases they proved unattainable within the American political cycle.
~ Henry Kissinger
The leaders on both sides of the Pacific have an obligation to establish a tradition of consultation and mutual respect so that, for their successors, jointly building a shared world order becomes an expression of parallel national aspirations.
~ Henry Kissinger
Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.
~ Henry L. Stimson
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
~ Henry Lee
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
~ Henry Louis Gates