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Quotes About Respect

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
~ Ginger Baker
Without money honor is merely a disease.
~ Jean Racine
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
~ Barbara Tuchman
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
~ Suzanne Vega
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
~ Herbert Hoover
Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.
~ Henry Clay
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.
~ Julius Erving
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
~ William Davenant
It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor. (upon receiving the OBE)
~ David Beckham
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
~ Daniel Webster
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
~ Norah Jones
Honor is a harder master than the law.
~ Mark Twain
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
~ Pierre Corneille
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
~ Brenda Lee
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
~ Laozi
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.
~ John Luther Long
Honor is decency without vanity.
~ Arthur Koestler