Respect
Definition: A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or
achievements. Admire (someone or something) deeply, as a result of their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
Number of Quotes: 15
Honour thy father and thy
mother: that thy days may be
long upon the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 20:12, King James Version
Holy Bible
But if ye have respect to per-
sons, ye commit sin, and are con-
vinced of the law as transsgressors.
James 2:9, King James Version
Holy Bible
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard David Bach
The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace.
And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public
as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
Warren Buffett
Love, friendship, respect do not unite people so much as common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton
If a gentleman is frivolous, he will lose the respect of his inferiors.
Confucius
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize the truth, either
in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future.
Roberto Goizueta
In civilised society, personal merit will not serve you so much as money will. Sir, you may make the experiment. Go into
the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you the most.
Samuel Johnson
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
Juvenal
I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere
motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Dalai Lama
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all
of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
Mark Twain
I want to begin with what I think is the most important factor: our respect for the
individual. This is a simple concept, but in IBM it occupies a major portion of management time.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
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