Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

Henry David Thoreau

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Lech Walesa

We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

Laini Taylor

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

John Updike

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

John Shelby Spong

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Laurence Sterne

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Frederick Sanger

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

Frederick Soddy

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Luigi Pirandello

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Luigi Pirandello

You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.

Nicolas Malebranche

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

Mike McCready

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

John Woolman

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.

John Wooden

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

Eric Hoffer

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

Philip James Bailey

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Max Nordau

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.

May Sarton

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

Norman Cousins

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

Norman Cousins

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norm MacDonald

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

Norm MacDonald

We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.

Mike Tyson

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

John Gunther

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

Georg Simmel

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Joan Collins

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Louisa May Alcott

Many argue; not many converse.