Respect Quotes - Page 21

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Abuse, Animal Rights

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• Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Abiding, Looks

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

  Evo Morales

  Ideas, Diversity, Tolerance

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• ...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Animal, Air

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• 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.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Teamwork, Country, Law

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Struggle, Adversity, Opposites

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Looks

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• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Communication, Caring, Thinking

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• Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

  Frederick Soddy

  Men, Influence, Force

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• Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Years, Issues, Judging

  "The Situation: Tuesday, August 16" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com.

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• If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

  Martial

  Lions, Beard, Shame

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

  Horace Walpole

  Philosophy, World, Goodness

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.

  Maria Julia Hernandez

  War, Mean, Rights

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• Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

  J. H. Oldham

  Differences, Divides

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• The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

  Pema Chodron

  Lakes, Water, Mind

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• You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Integrity, Self

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Good Man

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

  Barry Goldwater

  Flags, Earth, Prestige

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• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dying, Young, Old Fashioned

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Decision, Someday, Currency

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.90, Random House

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• Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

  Ken Salazar

  Oil, Doe, Liability

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• You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

  William Shakespeare

  World, Care, Too Much

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 74

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• Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

  Richard L. Evans

  Marriage, Wise, Humility

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Soul, Honor

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• Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.

  Sivananda

  Views, Unity, Opinion

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