If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
7 more views from Louis D. Brandeis
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
11 other thoughts from Bruce Lee
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
52 thoughts from Albert Camus
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
14 wisdom & wit from Laurence Sterne
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.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
78 other quotes from Voltaire
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
74 sayings from Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
12 thoughts from James Broughton
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
22 other sayings from Andre Gide
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
7 quotes from Mary Astell
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
19 other quotes from Charles de Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
19 other views from Charles de Gaulle
It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.
2 more quotes from John Bacon
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
2 thoughts from John Nelson Darby
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
2 other views from John Nelson Darby
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
6 more views from Johann Kaspar Lavater
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
18 wisdom & wit from Margaret Mead
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
68 other thoughts from Samuel Butler
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
2 wisdom & wit from Walter Hagen
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
14 more quotes from Joseph Conrad
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
19 thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
2 quotes from Ford Frick
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
4 other views from Louis Pasteur
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
6 quotes from William Lyon Phelps
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
2 other sayings from Jackie Robinson
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
19 other thoughts from Anton Chekhov
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
4 quotes from Abraham Joshua Heschel
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
6 quotes from William Lyon Phelps
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
24 other wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
9 views from Ethel Merman
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
3 quotes from U Thant
I respect Everest very much.
2 sayings from Anatoli Boukreev
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
26 more quotes from E. M. Forster
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
6 views from William Lyon Phelps
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
14 thoughts from Stendhal
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
3 quotes from Ausonius
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
47 more sayings from Abraham Lincoln
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
4 more quotes from Brendan Behan
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
2 other views from James Payn
Awe and respect are two different things.
5 views from Oliver Reed
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
4 thoughts from George Murray
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
27 quotes from James Madison
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
105 views from Albert Einstein
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
5 views from Robert Casey
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
3 quotes from Georg Simmel
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
2 wisdom & wit from Gene Fowler
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
2 more sayings from William Cobbett
The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
3 thoughts from William Dean Howells
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
5 quotes from Robert Casey
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
21 quotes from Bette Davis
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
14 other quotes from Edward Gibbon
Respect is what we owe love, what we give.
6 more wisdom & wit from Philip James Bailey
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
9 other quotes from Anthony Trollope
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
5 thoughts from Nikita Khrushchev
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
10 sayings from Henry James
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
16 views from Otto von Bismarck
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
2 more thoughts from Nikolai Gogol
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
21 thoughts from Malcolm X
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
15 more views from Orson Welles
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
21 more quotes from Malcolm X
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
52 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
10 other wisdom & wit from Wilson Mizner
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
7 other thoughts from Kate Smith
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
3 quotes from Harvey Milk
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
23 wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
14 more quotes from Joseph Joubert
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
16 other views from Vince Lombardi
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
53 other wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
53 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
2 more quotes from Georges Duhamel
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
2 quotes from Robert Schumann
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
7 thoughts from Sydney Smith
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
15 quotes from Norman Cousins
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
26 sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
5 views from Hattie McDaniel
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
8 quotes from Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
2 wisdom & wit from Nathan Bedford Forrest
Respect the burden.
50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
3 quotes from Francois Fenelon
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
13 thoughts from Herman Melville
I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
2 more quotes from Luther Allison
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
2 more quotes from Marcel Carne
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
2 more thoughts from Eldridge Cleaver
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
5 more quotes from Will Cuppy
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
20 other thoughts from Herbert Hoover
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
5 other views from Davy Crockett
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
23 sayings from T. S. Eliot
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
24 other wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
2 sayings from Jane Addams
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
4 quotes from Alan Ladd
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
9 sayings from J. B. Priestley
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
9 quotes from J. B. Priestley
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
103 other sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Arabs respect only the language of force.
2 sayings from Moshe Sharett
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
3 other quotes from George Bancroft
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
13 quotes from Jean Rostand
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
8 quotes from Frank Herbert
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
3 sayings from George Bancroft