“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”
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“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“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.”
“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.”
“If we are not free, no one will respect us.”
“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
“Respect the burden.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
“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.”
“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.”
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.”