939 private quotes tagged respect

“The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.” — Michael D. Higgins

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“Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.” — Max Nordau

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“There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.” — Helena Christensen

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“I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.” — Victoria Justice

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“You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.” — Alan Dundes

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“Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.” — Anna Lindh

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“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” — Eartha Kitt

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“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.” — Rick Santorum

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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.” — Rose Kennedy

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“I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.” — Ted Allen

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“You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.” — Cory Booker

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“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.” — Arthur Ashe

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“Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.” — Heather O'Reilly

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“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” — Kathy Ireland

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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” — George Santayana

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“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.” — Joseph Joubert

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“I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.” — Wilson Mizner

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“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” — Milan Kundera

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“I have a lot of respect for marriage.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” — Brian Tracy

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“Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.” — Jim Fowler

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“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” — Mother Teresa

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“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.” — Jason Schwartzman

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