Respect Quotes - Page 24

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Unpaid work never commands respect.

Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.