Respect Quotes - page 3

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. (Tupac Shakur)
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. View quote
Bette Davis
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. View quote
Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. View quote
Winston Churchill
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we are not free, no one will respect us. View quote
Abdul Kalam
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. View quote
John Major
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. (Honoré de Balzac)
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. View quote
Gabrielle Union
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. View quote
John Woolman
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. View quote
John Updike
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. View quote
John Lennon
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. View quote
Branch Rickey
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man - who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do? View quote
Maxim Gorky
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. View quote
Maimonides
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. (Maimonides)
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson