Respect Quotes - Page 15

• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loyalty, Honesty, Integrity

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• 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?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Errors, Fog, Enemy

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.66, The Floating Press

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Passion, Views

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

  Sting

  Cheer, Two, Giving

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• Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Eye, Insanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.539, Рипол Классик

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• There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Lying, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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

  Clarence Thomas

  Government, Law, Liberty

  Concurring in Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Conceited, Men, Self

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

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• I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

  Chris Ware

  Nice, Independent, Thinking

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Integrity, Character, Humility

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Children, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

  Richard Rohr

  Military, Political, Culture

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Men, Roller Coaster

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• When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

  Clint Eastwood

  No Respect, Young

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• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Nature, Practice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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• If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

  Billy Crystal

  Dad, Father, Writing

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• There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, Struggle, Suffering

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• 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.

  Jean Rostand

  Fame, Renown, Contempt

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strength, Success, Character

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• If we are not free, no one will respect us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Thrive, Ifs

  "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary of India" by G. Katyal and K. Bhushan, (p. 39), 2002.

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• Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

  Erich Fromm

  Unique, Individuality, Purpose

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.26, A&C Black

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

  Jim Rohn

  Greatness, Satisfaction, Ethics

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• I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Animal, Feelings, Understanding

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• Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

  Walter Scott

  Warrior, Joy, Steel

  'The Lady of the Lake' (1810) canto 5, st. 10

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• A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Compassion, Challenges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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