Respect Quotes - Page 13

• Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.

  Michael Josephson

  Sports, Attitude, Integrity

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• With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Hands, Wife, Cigarette

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.83, Zondervan

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• I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

  Britney Spears

  People, Care, Stuff

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Self-respect is the best of all.

  Hosea Ballou

  Self, Self Respect

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• Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Dog, Power, Government

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• I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Thinking, Stronger

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

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• Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Judgement, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.334, Modern Library

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• I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wish, Mexico, Massachusetts

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.92, Xist Publishing

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• I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

  John M. Gottman

  Love, Trust, Believe

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Squares, Justice, Demand

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

  George Bancroft

  Hair, Envy, Crowns

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

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• We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

  Rumi

  Way, Helping, Manners

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Girl, Dancer, Stomach

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• Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

  Tracy Chapman

  Faith, Peace, Understanding

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• Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Environment

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• How do we help the church get their respect back? I have a plan: pedophile crucifixions.

  Christopher Titus

  Church, Helping, Plans

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, Truth, People

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Kids, Feds

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• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  U Thant

  Truth, Morality, Thrive

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• What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs at all, and actually poke fun at them. Well, I have news for [him]: that's the nature of a free society. Opinions don't necessarily merit respect; they must earn respect in the marketplace of ideas.

  Jeffrey Shallit

  Fun, Ideas, News

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Truth, Too Much, Drag

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• Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Divinity, Shame, Reason

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical writings”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Teaching, Littles, Today

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• ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Murder

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• There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ties, Tree, Humanity

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.115

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