Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Mann

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Thomas Carlyle

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Thomas Carlyle

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Thomas Carlyle

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Steve Martin

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

Stendhal

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Shakira

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent?

Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.

Thorstein Veblen

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Tiger Woods

The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

Richard Bach

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Cochrane

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas E. Mann

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

Rumi

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

Val Kilmer

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Rigoberta Menchu

I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

Rigoberta Menchu

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

T. S. Eliot

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Suzi Quatro

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

Tracy Chapman

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

Robert Green Ingersoll

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Sting

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

W. H. Auden

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

U Thant

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

U Thant

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

William Arthur Ward

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Washington Allston

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.