Respect Quotes

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.[Der unüberlegte Respekt vor der Autorität ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.]

When you develop pride in where you’re from then you have more respect and understanding in terms of where other people are from also.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.[On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.]

To my mind to be astonished at nothing is much more stupid than to be astonished at everything. And, moreover, to be astonished at nothing is almost the same as feeling respect for nothing. And indeed a stupid man is incapable of feeling respect.[По-моему, ничему не удивляться гораздо глупее, чем всему удивляться. Да и кроме того: ничему не удивляться почти то же, что ничего и не уважать. Да глупый человек и не может уважать.]

Time, which alone can establish a man’s reputation, has at last made those defects respectable.[Le temps, qui fait seul la réputation des hommes, rend à la fin leurs défauts respectables.]

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.[Rien n’est plus méprisable que le respect fondé sur la crainte.]

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, get there is always a limit.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that’s the only way anybody else is going to.

I wrote without much effort, for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.