939 private quotes tagged respect

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” — Confucius

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“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” — Sun Tzu

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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” — Bruce Lee

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“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.” — Steve Jobs

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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” — Albert Camus

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“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” — Carl Sandburg

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“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” — Dalai Lama

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“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” — Yousef Munayyer

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“If we are not free, no one will respect us.” — Abdul Kalam

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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.” — James Madison

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“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.” — Albert Einstein

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“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” — Winston Churchill

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“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” — Winston Churchill

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“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.” — Samuel Butler

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“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” — Maya Angelou

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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.” — Voltaire

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“Respect the burden.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?” — Abdul Kalam

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“Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.” — Dave Matthews

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“A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.” — Jena Malone

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“I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.” — Newt Gingrich

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“Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.” — Mark Twain

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“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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