Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Respect

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Clint Eastwood (b.1930) American Film Director, Film Producer, Film Actor

Having the courage to live within one’s means is respectability.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) British Head of State

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) Prussian German Philosopher, Logician

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American Comedian, TV Personality, Actor

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham (1918–91) American Baptist Religious Leader

‘When we take people,’ thou wouldst say, ‘merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.’
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

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 (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English Novelist, Poet

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
Plutarch (c.46–c.120 CE) Greek Biographer, Philosopher

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) French Philosopher, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Political Activist

The myths have always condemned those who “looked back.” Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905–61) Swedish Statesman, UN Diplomat

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher, Physician

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.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
Arnold Glasow (1905–98) American Businessman

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

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.
Salvador Dali (1904–89) Spanish Painter

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel (1792–1871) English Mathematician, Astronomer, Chemist

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian-American Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

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 (1817–62) American Philosopher

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