• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 156 reads

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• I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 98 reads

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• If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

  

  Johannes Brahms

  MusicianGerman1833 · 19th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 91 reads

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• If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 153 reads

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• If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

  

  Greek proverb

  Greek

  4.6 · 10 votes · 82 reads

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• In his private heart no man much respects himself.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 166 reads

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 47 votes · 36 reads

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• Men are respectable only as they respect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 103 reads

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• My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 182 reads

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• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 109 reads

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• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 65 reads

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• Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.8 · 31 votes · 112 reads

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 155 reads

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• Respect starts with yourself.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.3 · 39 votes · 16 reads

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• Respect the burden.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 125 reads

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• Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 199 reads

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• Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

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  Anonymous

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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.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 35 votes · 191 reads

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• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 158 reads

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• To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 10 reads

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

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 9 reads

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• We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 74 reads

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 26 reads

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• We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 183 reads

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• We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 18 reads

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• Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 170 reads

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• What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 101 reads

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• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 147 reads

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• Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 43 reads

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• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 33 votes · 97 reads

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