Respect Quotes - Page 24

• To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Equality, Self, Political

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Winning, Quality, Attention

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• Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

  George Washington

  Army, Action, Company

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 2) Comprising official letters relating to the French War, and private letters before the American Revolution”, p.412

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• Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

  Dominique Pire

  Negative Words, Understanding, Tolerance

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• Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Loneliness, Independence

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• Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Cherish, Highest

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• The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

  Mark Twain

  Office, Pirate, Flags

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

  Moliere

  Preference, Esteem, Cease

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2000). “The Misanthrope and Other Plays”, p.200, Penguin UK

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

  Harold Pinter

  Mean, Acknowledge, Ifs

  Harold Pinter (1993). “Party Time ; And, The New World Order: Two Plays”, p.28, Grove Press

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• I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

  Martin Ritt

  Work, Genius, Talent

  Martin Ritt, Gabriel Miller (2003). “Martin Ritt: Interviews”, p.204, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

  Washington Allston

  Looks, Fit, Pleasure

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

  Liz Murray

  Leadership, Thinking, People

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• As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Character, Men

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3759, GENERAL PRESS

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• Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hate, Soul, Mediocrity

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• The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Ugly

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• I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Self Respect, I Respect Myself

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• Awe and respect are two different things.

  Oliver Reed

  Fear, Two, Different

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• So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

  Eriq La Salle

  Hollywood Films, Important, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Real, Character, Play

  "Kyra Sedgwick Talks The Woodsman". movieweb.com. December 23, 2004.

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• The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

  Ron Silver

  Century, Scales, Barbarism

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• If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

  Jeremy London

  Stupid, Done, Towns

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• It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

  Marcel Carne

  Nice, People, Appreciate

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• Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.

  Walter Annenberg

  Attitude, Safe, Groups

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• I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.

  Luisah Teish

  Future, Humility, Thinking

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• A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

  Herodotus

  Women, Garments, Claims

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