#Respect Quotes

“The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”

“Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.”

“The due of honor in no point omit.”

“Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”

“And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”

“Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.”

“The icy precepts of respect.”

“The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.”

“You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.”

“That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.”

“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”

“Raise your words, not your voice.”

“We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.”

“Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.”

“In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.”

“I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.”

“People Really Do Respect Those who are Willing to Speak their Truth”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.”

“Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.”

“We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”

“I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.”

“When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.”

“If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.”

“To you your father should be as a god.”

“Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”

“You can disagree without being disagreeable.”

“Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.”

“I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.”

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

“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.”

“I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.”

“Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.”

“If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.”

“Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

“I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.”

“There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.”

“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.”

“I crave fit disposition for my wife;Due reference of place, and exhibition;With such accommodation, and besort,As levels with her breeding.”

“A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.”

“Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

“You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.”

“The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.”

“If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.”

“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”