Respect Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

  Kristy Swanson

  Sex, Self, Roles

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• People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

  Jennifer Capriati

  People, Want

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

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• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  Vince Carter

  Needs, Want, Gains

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• The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

  Roscoe Pound

  Law, Stills, Stable

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• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Tennis, Usage

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• Arabs respect only the language of force.

  Moshe Sharett

  Language, Force

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• Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

  Barry Sheene

  Deserve

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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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• The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Missing, Gone, Will Miss You

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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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• Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Advantage, Entitled

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32

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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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• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  Rachel True

  Black, Lucky, Roles

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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Integrity, Gay

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• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Dennis Prager

  Responsibility, Punishment, Ideas

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