Respect Quotes - Page 24

• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  Bill Wyman

  Player, Bass, Bass Players

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• One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Advantage, Entitled

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32

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• No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Doe, Increase, Companion

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• Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Reality, Personality

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• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Ocean, Sea, People

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Religious, Profound, Religion

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Self Respect, I Respect Myself

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• The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Ugly

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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hate, Soul, Mediocrity

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• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

  Andre Gide

  Differences, Generations, Literature

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.93, Routledge

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• He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Suicidal, Doe

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Success

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• Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Romantic, Cute Friendship

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• No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Keeping Secrets, People, Gossip

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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• Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Love You, Parenting

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• I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Superstitious

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• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  Rachel True

  Black, Lucky, Roles

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• He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

  Washington Allston

  Looks, Fit, Pleasure

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Way, Manners

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• To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Equality, Self, Political

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

  Louis Pasteur

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.169, Vintage

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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  Andy Rooney

  Government, Perfect, Effort

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