Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Li Zhaoxing

We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.

Terry Gross

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

Tecumseh

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Samuel Johnson

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Sachin Tendulkar

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect, no respect at all!

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

Rodney Dangerfield

It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

Rodney Dangerfield

I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

Rodney Dangerfield

With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.

Robert Stack

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Ron Silver

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Susan Polis Schutz

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.