2,101 Quotes About Respect

  • Author Étienne de La Boétie
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    Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing; it is never developed except between persons of character, and never takes root except through mutual respect; it flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity. What makes one friend sure of another is the knowledge of his integrity: as guarantees he has his friend's fine nature, his honor, and his constancy.

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  • Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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    Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man.

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  • Author Jo Owen
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    Seeking popularity achieves nothing other than an easy life in the short term. The effective leader will build respect, not popularity

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