Respect Quotes - Page 9

• To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Self, Indifference

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Leadership, Believe

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• If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

  Max Nordau

  Doe, Would Be, Trouble

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  Barry Gibb

  Self, Self Respect

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• I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Relationship, Money, Tolerate

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Religious, Atheist

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Destiny, Agents

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Healing, Writing

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Acceptance, Self Reliance, Care

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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• America wants its respect.

  Tupac Shakur

  America, Want

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

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press

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• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

  Cyril Connolly

  Inspirational, Clever, Writing

  New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933

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• Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Learning, Men, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

  John Updike

  Cost, Literature, Newness Of Life

  1975 A Month of Sundays, ch.18.

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• It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Fall, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

  Suzi Quatro

  Artist, Thinking, Recognition

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• Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Women, Bores

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• The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Men, Peers, Gains

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• Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Karma, Integrity

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 177

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• I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Flight, Dishes, Frills

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• All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Opposites, People, Should

  "Three Plays".

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• A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

  Sparky Anderson

  Player, Doe, Baseball Managers

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• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Lasts, Dignity

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

  May Sarton

  Self, Needs, Behinds

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

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