Respect Quotes - Page 28

Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

Contempt mates well with pity.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

We add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall build a life with more justice.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.