Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Linda Tripp

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

Lili Taylor

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Lewis Carroll

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

Lewis Carroll

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

John Locke

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Jimmy Chamberlin

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

Joseph de Maistre

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Kate Smith

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Millett

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Liz Murray

When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

Louis D. Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.