Respect Quotes

All true love is founded on esteem. - George Buckingham

Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within. - Steven H. Coogler

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. - Benjamin Disraeli

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. - Arnold Glasow

He that respects not is not respected. - George Herbert

Respect a man, he will do the more. - James Howell

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

 
Things hard to come by are much esteemed. - Latin Proverb

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love.  It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates. - Stanislaus Leszcynski

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little. - Stanislaus Leszcynski

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is the final test of a gentleman; his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. - William Lyon Phelps

We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. - Oscar Wilde

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. - Rebecca West

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Now,as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness. - Thomas Mann

We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed. - John J. Raskob

 

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