Respect Quotes - Page 19

• 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.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Civilization, Water, Messages

  Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe Diolé (1972). “The whale, mighty monarch of the sea”

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• I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything

  Jerry Rice

  Mvp, Montana, Want

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• Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  Happiness, Kindness, Humble

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

  C. Wright Mills

  Shadow, Cash, Soap

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

  William Warburton

  Passion, Mind, Novelty

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• Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

  Xanana Gusmao

  Hands, Tolerance, Mutual

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• What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

  Yolanda King

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• We add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall build a life with more justice.

  Francisco Toledo

  Struggle, Voice, Differences

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• We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

  Lech Walesa

  Future, Mean, Men

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• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  Preston Brooks

  Self, Should Have, Calling

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• Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

  John J. McCloy

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  Thinking, Gentleman, Wish

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Nice, Believe, Thinking

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• To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats

  Hideki Tojo

  Order, Prejudice, Existence

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• I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Security Systems, People, Scary

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• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Decision, Information, Way

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  Edward Irving

  Heart, Grieving, Scotland

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• All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

  John Shelby Spong

  Race, Ethnicity, Rejection

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• 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

  Progress, Culture, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Men, Stranger, Old Man

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• There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Honor, Liberty

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• Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Sweet

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• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

  Adrienne Rich

  Life, Believe, Moving

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• Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

  Abdul Kalam

  Self Esteem, Judging, Self Reliance

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  What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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