R Quotes
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“Respect your teacher even if you know more than your teacher, because respecting for a labour is more important than knowing a lot!”
“Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.”
“Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.”
Source: Paradise
“Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.”
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
“Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you.”
“Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.”
“Respect yourself enough to let go of someone who doesn’t see your worth.”
“Respect yourself enough to stop accepting disrespect. If you let people treat you like a doormat, they’ll keep wiping their feet on you. Know your worth & set high standards for yourself. It's time to say, "I’m not here for your nonsense!” Remember, self-respect is a non-negotiable. If someone can’t step up to treat you right, show them the door. Life’s too short to settle for anything less than you deserve. You’re not a doormat—you’re a damn masterpiece, so don’t let anyone treat you otherwise!”
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from a relationship that makes you compromise your dignity.”
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.”
“Respect yourself, others, the elders and the young ones
Respect your peers, colleagues, manager, and your clients or customers
Respect yours and other people’s partner, relationship and marriage
Respect yours and others culture, religion, faith and God.
Respect time, business meetings, appointment, agreements or contracts.
Respect life, nature, rules and the law.
Respect if you want to be respect and respect if you want to make it in life.”
“Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game”
“Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.”
“Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.”
“Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.”
“Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.”
“Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.”
“Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”
“Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.”
“Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.”
“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.”
“Respectability offends my taste.”
“Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.”
“Respectable?...Not another word, my dear, for I assure you of all the sentiments I should like to inspire respect is the very last: love is what I wish to arouse. Respect! I am not yet old enough for respect.”
Source: The Crimes of Love
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.”
Source: The Culture of Terrorism
“Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.”
“Respectable people... What bastards!”
“Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.”
“Respectable Shadowhunters are not supposed to bring my sort home to meet Mom and Dad. I have a past. I have several pasts. Besides, good Shadowhunter boys aren’t meant to bring home boyfriends at all.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.”
“Respected Teacher,
My son will have to learn that all men are not just, all men are not true.
But teach him also that for ever scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader. Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend.
It will take time, I know; but teach him, if you can, that a dollar earned is far more valuable than five found.”
“Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.”
“Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la séduction, et même, dans certains cas, le désir et l'amour.”
“Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“Respectful boundaries are needed so that we can look after ourselves and continue to give to others. After all, nobody can be expected to pour from an empty cup.”
Source: Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way
“Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.”
“RESPECTFUL IDEATION is the reluctance to permit the association of different individual mental impressions when there is no unquestionable basis for the link. Even though creating a deliberate interaction between these polymorphic thoughts would make for a more contended cognitive system, the probability of blemishing the truth preserves respect in the intuitive sphere.
December 13, 2016.”
Source: Respectful Ideation
“Respectful relationships form the basis of personal power.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It's just a big piece of rock floating through space. Anything anyone does remains their own decision.”
Source: Countdown City
“Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.”
“Respecting a child teaches them that even the smallest, most powerless, most vulnerable person is worthy of respect. And that is a lesson our world desperately needs to learn.”
“Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.”
“Respecting animals means making the effort to understand them---their habits, needs, and even their fears. Respecting people often means taking those things into account too. None of us are perfect, but all of us deserve respect.”
Source: Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland