“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.”
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“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
“Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.”
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
“America wants its respect.”
“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”
“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”
“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.”
“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.”
“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”
“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”
“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”
“The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.”
“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”
“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
“Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.”
“Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.”
“I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.”
“Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.”
“I always respect a woman.”
“I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.”