Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerrit Smith

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Henry David Thoreau

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

Henry David Thoreau

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Henry David Thoreau

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Henry David Thoreau

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Henry David Thoreau

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

Estelle Parsons

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Evita Peron

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Erykah Badu

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Florence King

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Harold Pinter

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

Harold Ramis

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Irene Khan

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

Immanuel Kant

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

Jennifer Hudson

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

Jerome K. Jerome

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

James A. Baldwin

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James A. Baldwin

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

Jackie Robinson

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Franz Grillparzer

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Franz Grillparzer

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.