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Quotes About Respect

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.
~ Ina May Gaskin
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
~ Plutarch
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
~ Lord Chesterfield
There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
~ Alan Chadwick
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
~ Paul Tsongas
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.
~ Lynne McTaggart
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
~ John Stuart Mill
Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.
~ Pope Francis
Remember your natural affection for all of creation.
~ Rob Brezsny
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
~ Charles Dickens
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
~ Clarence Day
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
~ Thomas Sowell
Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
~ Wendell Berry
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
~ William James
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
~ James Rollins, Ice Hunt
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
~ Seneca the Younger
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
~ Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.
~ Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.
~ Hilary Mantel
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
~ James Madison