People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

He who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Lakshmi the Goddess of wealth comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected grain is well stored up and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great none so much needed now.

Throughout my career if I have done anything I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener I fail.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus but we do not on that account value him less.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

Do not crave for recognition and respect from others, crave rather for winning grace from the Lord.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

That's what people respect the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

Respect the burden.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

When I'm getting to know someone I look for someone who has passions that I respect like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Fortunately we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way I think you know no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you they care about children and that's been good to see.

If religion were true its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity, but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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.

Consult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

If we are not free no one will respect us.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful irrespective of guilt.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove that there aren't any so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including fundamentalists are quite intelligent many of them are highly educated and they should be treated with complete respect.

Almost any biographer if he respects facts can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact, the fertile fact, the fact that suggests and engenders.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Honor and respect all religions equally.

When cowardice is made respectable its followers are without number, both from among the weak and the strong, it easily becomes a fashion.

I believe the right question to ask respecting all ornament is simply this, was it done with enjoyment was the carver happy while he was about it?

Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.

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

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize, so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete everybody will respect you.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part if possible than both the other, or if that cannot be at least than either of them separate.

Even as you are a citizen of your motherland but respect all countries, also respect all religions equally.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too if he could.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Respect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.

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

Time which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Friendship between equals flourishes service under a king is respectable it is good to be business-minded in public dealings and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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

You should not stay for even one second at a place where people are speaking disrespectfully of a saint.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Brought up to respect the conventions love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

When you practice gratefulness there is a sense of respect toward others.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are who like to be told the worst.

Baba tells us that when we serve another we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs, in fact it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes, cheering them up if possible but seeing things from their point of view.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

If you can build a business up big enough it's respectable.

When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

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.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

Conservatism discards Prescription shrinks from Principle disavows Progress, having rejected all respect for antiquity it offers no redress for the present and makes no preparation for the future.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.