Respect Quotes - Page 22

• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles M. Vest

  Military, Long, Proud

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• Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Wise, People, Demand

  J. Donald Walters, Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (2004). “Conversations with Yogananda”, p.70, Crystal Clarity Publishers

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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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• It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Queens, Believe, Race

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

  Frederick Soddy

  Men, Influence, Force

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• Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

  William James

  Happiness, Hands, Tolerance

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• When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Law, People

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  Christopher Wren

  Confusion, Confusing, Vices

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• They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

  Roger Brooke Taney

  Men, Rights, White Man

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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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• We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.

  Rebecca Hall

  Animal, Equality, Emotional

  Rebecca Hall (1983). “Animals Are Equal: An Exploration of Animal Consciousness”, HarperCollins

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• Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Learning, Three

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• Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Sex, Men, Differences

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• I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Men, Way

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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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• Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Mean, Law

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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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• If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

  Charles Kingsley

  Thinking, People, Wish

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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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• 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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• Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

  Mike McCready

  Band, Littles, Lips

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• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  Dan Glickman

  Player, Rights, Intellectual

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• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

  Wietse Venema

  Years, Two, Roots

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• It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

  Tina Weymouth

  World, Talent, Pleasure

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Team, Believe, Play

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