Quotes about respectability

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

— Aesop

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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.

— William Blake

Respect the burden.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Respect is love in plain clothes.

— Frankie Byrne

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

— Albert Camus

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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

— Eldridge Cleaver

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

— Confucius

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

— Quentin Crisp

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.

— Salvador Dali

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

Men are respectable only as they respect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

— John W. Gardner

I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard!

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

— Billy Graham

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.

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Thomas Hardy

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

— Sir John Herschel

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

— Edgar Watson Howe

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

— James Howell

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.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

— Henrik Ibsen

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.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Maggie Kuhn

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Herbert Henry Lehman

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.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Joseph De Maistre

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

— Malcolm X

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.

— C. Wright Mills

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

— John Milton

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

— George Moore

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

— Plutarch

Respect starts with yourself.

— Proverb

Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.

— Chinese Proverb

If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

— Greek Proverb

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

— Mandy Rice-Davies

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

— George Bernard Shaw

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

— Socrates

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

— Laurence Sterne

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

— Henry David Thoreau

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

— Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

— Mark Twain

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

— Source Unknown

We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

— Voltaire

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

— Alice Walker

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a

— Oscar Wilde

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

— Oscar Wilde

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

— Shelley Winters

Girls grow up listen to fairy tales and they are princess of their parents. They realize slowly that life is not a fairy tale and compromise with lives just for and unknown person and family. Leave everything their family , wishes and friends. They find tears to be their best friend and guys call them crying dolls. Lucky are all the guys who don't have to leave anything and who live a life given by their mom,sis n wife. So girls are the angels on earth. Respect them with dignity, see them with trustfulness cause they are the one for whom we all stand here to see this wonderful life. Let us all come together and revolt against the criminal who see girl with sign of cruel. And make every place in this world a secure place to let live every girl with freedom. Show the world that girls are not the minors and no less than man. Man don't forget that the earth where you stand today is your mother earth. So do Respect Girls..

— Abhishek Sureka