Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Jessica Simpson

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Jerry Colangelo

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

Horace Walpole

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

I don't think that this will topple the Franco-German balance; it can be done respecting that.

Harold Pinter

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

Harold Ramis

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Irene Khan

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

Immanuel Kant

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

Margaret Spellings

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Joseph Addison

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Jose Mourinho

You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

Kelli O'Hara

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Jo Coudert

It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

Jimmy Carter

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

James Payn

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

Epictetus

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

Steve Hansen

The Day of Silence is all about respecting one another for our differences.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henri Rousseau

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

Herodotus

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

Hideki Tojo

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

Kurt Cobain

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

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.