Respect Quotes - Page 23

• He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Ornaments, Dignity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.203

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• Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Hate, Hatred

  "Psychologically Speaking: A Book of Quotations". Book by Kevin Connolly, Margaret Martlew, 1999.

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• I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, College, Games

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• The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

  Frances Harper

  Gold

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.104, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Father, Little Things, Tradition

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• It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Hands, Someone You Love, Hardest

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• Flatter yourself critically.

  Willis Regier

  Self Respect

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Mean, Law

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• Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

  Jerry Fodor

  Doctrine, Individualism, Psychological

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

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• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Hands, Touching

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Play

  "Coleman's short 'n' sweet speech rings true" by Tim Sullivan, legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 1, 2005.

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• Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

  Rene Descartes

  Thinking, Common Sense, World

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• I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

  Erykah Badu

  Thinking, People, Conformity

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• There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Winning, Quality, Attention

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• And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

  Agnes Smedley

  Winning, Men, Hands

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• We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Soul, Facts

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.95

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• We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Mistake, Men, Littles

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.168

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• He that respects not is not respected.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.305

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• It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dark, Army, Uniforms

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• The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

  Thomas Huxley

  Self, World, Great Things

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Flippant

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

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• With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, Men, Hunting

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• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Perseverance

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• I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Switzerland, No Respect, Obscene

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