Quotes About Respect

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

No dignity without distance.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

You can disagree, but it's a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.