Respect Quotes

Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Don’t pick a macho romantic, if you want a man to respect you.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?[Разве сознающий человек может сколько-нибудь себя уважать?]

Be a person and respect others as persons.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.[Главное, самому себе не лгите. Лгущий самому себе и собственную ложь свою слушающий до того доходит, что уж никакой правды ни в себе, ни кругом не различает, а стало быть входит в неуважение и к себе и к другим. Не уважая же никого, перестает любить.]