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“I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.”
Samuel Osgood
“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”
Bill Bradley
“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
“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.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Joan Didion
“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them”
Herbert Henry Lehman
“I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent”
Henry David Thoreau
“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.”
Proverb