Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

Khalil Gibran

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

Orison Swett Marden

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.

Olympia Snowe

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Mason Cooley

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

Mencius

He who respects others is respected by them.

Mencius

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

Theodore Parker

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Malcolm X

Respect me, or put me to death.

Malcolm X

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

James Madison

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Joan Didion

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Joan Didion

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

John Hume

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

John Hume

Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

Ralph Bunche

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

Sean Covey

All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

Sean Covey

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Neil Diamond

My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

John W. Gardner

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John Robinson

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

John Philip Sousa

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

Ravi Shankar

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Tom Hiddleston

This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I’m old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority.

Rajneesh

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Theodore C. Sorensen

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Margaret Mead

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Eric Hoffer

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

You can see the respect between them before and after the games.