Famous Quotes

"Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?"

Marguerite Gardiner on Respect

More quotes about Respect

• "An individual who breaks a 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 the law."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

  Albert Einstein on Respect

• "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

  Malcolm X on Respect

• "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

  Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by Marguerite Gardiner

• "Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."

• "Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates."

• "Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little."

• "We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."

• "We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."