Famous Quotes

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age."

• "Age merely shows what children we remain."

• "The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

• "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

• "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."