Great Respect Quotes

• I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Appreciate, Merit

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• One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Inspirational, Respect, Effective Listening

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

  Bono

  Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  Jackie Robinson

  Motivational, Change, Baseball

  "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

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• I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Respect, Believe

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Ethics

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• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

  Steve Jobs

  Done, Improvement, Revolutionary

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• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Marriage, Reality, Hands

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

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• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  Vera Wang

  Daughter, Mother, Respect

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Attitude, Literature

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• I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Inspirational, Respect, Ethics

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• Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

  Steig Larsson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Trust

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• We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Character, Men

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Respect, Understanding, Tolerance

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• If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Confidence, Respect, Self Esteem

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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• A person's a person, no matter how small.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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

  Joan Didion

  Respect, Lying, Self

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.108, Zola Books

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• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  U Thant

  Respect, Human Rights, United Nations

  "Portfolio for Peace", (p. 92), 1968.

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

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Respect, Philosophical

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Generations, Eccentric

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• I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Jon Stewart, in his own words" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. August 5, 2015.

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