Respect Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• But respect yourself most of all.

  Pythagoras

  Respect Yourself

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• The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Depth, Mysterious

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• Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Freedom, Liberty, Harmony

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• There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

  Chief Dan George

  People, Purpose, Common

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• What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

  Molly Ivins

  Needs, Too Much, Authority

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Nature, Children, Animal

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• Men are born equal but they are also born different.

  Erich Fromm

  Equality, Men, Diversity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, Men, Doe

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.122

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• Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

  Sir Fulke Greville

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• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  Norm MacDonald

  Prudent, Reverence, Dues

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• Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

  Woody Hayes

  Kids, Men, Giving

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• Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

  Frederick Douglass

  Mean, People, Ethics

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.257, Hackett Publishing

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• Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspiring, Inspire

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

  Khalil Gibran

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed.

  John J. Raskob

  Attitude, Men, Law

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• Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists deny that mathematics, except as a shorthand or expository device, can be applied to economic reasoning. There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

  James R Newman

  Powerful, Communication, Math

  "The World of Mathematics".

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• The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Sight, Taoism

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• The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Healthy, Fruit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.38

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• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hope, Learning

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two essays on analytical psychology”

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• What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into execution... Little more can reasonably be aimed at with the respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped ; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Order, Years

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• I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Inspiration, Loss, Men

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• My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

  Neil Diamond

  Peers, Enough, Accepting

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• You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

  Bob Dylan

  Better Than You

  Song: To Ramona

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• I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  Jackie Robinson

  Mistake, Loneliness, Acceptance

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