Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

Mahatma Gandhi

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Juan Goytisolo

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Karl Kraus

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

Gustave Flaubert

Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Louis Pasteur

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Lord Chesterfield

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Lord Chesterfield

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Lusia Strus

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

Luther Allison

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Max Beerbohm

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Marilyn vos Savant

. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.

Hank Haney

I'm not saying I teach Tiger Woods. We're old friends. He respects my views on the game, just as he respects other people's views.

We've got a lot of respect for Portland. We see them as a pretty solid lacrosse team.

They just haven't got any respect for the community. You can't even sit there and watch television they make so much noise.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Oscar Wilde

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Oscar Wilde

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Leverett Saltonstall

I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few....

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Mark Wahlberg

He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

Mike Carey

Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.

Naomi Weisstein

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

Preston Brooks

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Rachel Maddow

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

Omar Sharif

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men