Quotes on Respect

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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.

The more we elevate people's lives - the more we treat people with dignity and respect and honor their rights and freedoms - the more we discourageand even preventterrorism.

You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

You think about the legacy that you leave behind, and I've been very fortunate to be part of a very successful team, but I think the fight for equal pay and respect is something that goes beyond the field. I think it is very important, something that I'm very willing to take on to help the generations that come behind me.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.