Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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 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.

James Blake

That's always what I've wanted people. That's the kind of respect I want,

Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Benjamin Disraeli

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Benjamin Disraeli

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Russell Crowe

You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Eduardo Galeano

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

Jim Calhoun

Any team that's won 20 games, we're going to have respect for.

Jill Soloway

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Jami Attenberg

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

This is a momentum-builder, and we are getting our respect back.

You respect the program, you respect their accomplishments.

You would think that would be enough. There is nothing wrong with being an underdog. We just go out and make teams respect us.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.