Respect Quotes - Page 6

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water - if very young children don't begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.