Respect Quotes - Page 10

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.