Respect Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

  Jerry Wexler

  Real, Roots, Singing

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• Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.169, Vintage

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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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• Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Years, Enjoy Life, Should

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.206

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• It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Thinking, Claims

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.346

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• Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

  Lyman Trumbull

  Rights, Law, Doe

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• We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

  Zinedine Zidane

  People

  "ZZ top". Interview With Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2004.

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• And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

  Agnes Smedley

  Winning, Men, Hands

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• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  Bill Wyman

  Player, Bass, Bass Players

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• One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, People, Leader

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