Quotes about respectability

"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office."

Aesop on respectability
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"To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on respectability   

"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on respectability
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"The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved."

Blake, William on respectability   

"Respect the burden."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on respectability   

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on respectability   

"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Byrne, Frankie on respectability
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on respectability   

"Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

Cleaver, Eldridge on respectability
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."

Crisp, Quentin on respectability   

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."

Dali, Salvador on respectability   

"I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."

Dangerfield, Rodney on respectability   

"Men are respectable only as they respect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on respectability
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"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

Gardner, John W. on respectability
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"I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard!"

Garrison, William Lloyd on respectability   

"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

Graham, Billy on respectability   

"The myths have always condemned those who looked back. Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."

Hammarskjold, Dag on respectability   

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

Hardy, Thomas on respectability   

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Herschel, Sir John on respectability
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"One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself."

Howe, Edgar Watson on respectability   

"Respect a man, he will do it the more."

Howell, James on respectability   

"I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on respectability   

"Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse."

Ibsen, Henrik on respectability   

"Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability   

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"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability
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"A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability   

"The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name."

Kuhn, Maggie on respectability   

"Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on respectability   

"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."

Lawrence, D. H. on respectability   

"I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them."

Lehman, Herbert Henry on respectability
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"Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts."

Lincoln, Abraham on respectability
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"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."

Maistre, Joseph De on respectability   

"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."

Malcolm X on respectability
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"Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system."

Mills, C. Wright on respectability   

"What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair."

Milton, John on respectability
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"No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable."

Moore, George on respectability   

"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

Plutarch on respectability
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"Respect starts with yourself."

Proverb on respectability
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