Respect Quotes - Page 27

• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Nature, Smart

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

  Jean Paul

  Responsibility, Roots, Tolerance

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• There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Decorum, Revulsion, Breach

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.32, e-artnow

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• Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

  Ava Gardner

  Song, Needs, Share

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• Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.

  Clarence Day

  Adorable, Everlasting

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• I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

  Robert D. Hales

  Sister, Mother, Father

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• Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Forfeit, Claims

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• To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worthy, Capable

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.120

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• The icy precepts of respect.

  William Shakespeare

  Icy

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.612

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• Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

  Woody Hayes

  Kids, Men, Giving

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• The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hard Work, Enemy, Devil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

  Doug Stanhope

  Men, Ease, Courtesy

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• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, Men, Doe

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.122

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• Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

  Sir Fulke Greville

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• Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

  Annie Gottlieb

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Dennis Prager

  Responsibility, Punishment, Ideas

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Learning

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Looks, Hide And Seek

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• I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Inspiration, Loss, Men

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• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Hype, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into execution... Little more can reasonably be aimed at with the respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped ; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Order, Years

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• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  Val Kilmer

  Couple, Sleep, Careers

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• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  Waylon Jennings

  Redneck, Rebel, Cash

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• The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Healthy, Fruit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.38

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• The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Sight, Taoism

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