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 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
24 wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
2 quotes from Jane Addams
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
4 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
63 other thoughts 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 other 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 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Arabs respect only the language of force.
2 views from Moshe Sharett
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
3 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 other wisdom & wit from George Bancroft
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
7 quotes from Louis D. Brandeis
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
11 sayings from Bruce Lee
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
52 more sayings from Albert Camus
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
14 views 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 views from Winston Churchill
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
78 quotes from Voltaire
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
12 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Andre Gide
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
7 other quotes from Mary Astell
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
19 more thoughts 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 other quotes from John Bacon
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
2 other sayings from John Nelson Darby
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
2 quotes from John Nelson Darby
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
6 other wisdom & wit 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 other views 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 sayings from Samuel Butler
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
2 quotes 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 other views from Joseph Conrad
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
21 quotes 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Louis Pasteur
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
6 sayings from William Lyon Phelps
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
15 sayings 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 sayings from Jackie Robinson
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
19 more sayings from Anton Chekhov
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
4 more views 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 more 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 thoughts 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 more thoughts from Orison Swett Marden
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
9 other thoughts 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 thoughts from Anatoli Boukreev
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
26 views 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 more quotes 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 sayings from Stendhal
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
3 wisdom & wit from Ausonius
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
47 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 other views 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 wisdom & wit 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 more views from Albert Einstein
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
5 quotes from Robert Casey
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
3 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 more quotes 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 views from William Hazlitt
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
21 more quotes from Bette Davis
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
14 quotes from Edward Gibbon
Respect is what we owe love, what we give.
6 thoughts 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 other sayings 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 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 quotes from Henry James
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
16 wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Orson Welles
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
21 sayings from Malcolm X
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
10 more thoughts from Wilson Mizner
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
7 quotes 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 thoughts from Harvey Milk
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
23 more quotes 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 views from Joseph Joubert
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
53 sayings 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 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
2 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Sydney Smith
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
15 other 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 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
5 other sayings 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 more views from Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
2 other quotes from Nathan Bedford Forrest
Respect the burden.
50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
3 more sayings from Francois Fenelon
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
13 views from Herman Melville
I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
2 quotes from Luther Allison
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
2 quotes from Marcel Carne
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
2 wisdom & wit from Eldridge Cleaver
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
5 thoughts from Will Cuppy
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
20 sayings 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 more sayings from Davy Crockett