Respect Quotes - Page 22

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

Show love, tolerance and respect to everyone.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.