Respect Quotes - Page 19

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

We have to be respectful to one another.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.