Respect Differences Quotes

#1. The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.

Tanya Masse

#2. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.

Carlos Barrios

#3. Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

Richard John Neuhaus

#4. I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading."
"On Despising Genres," essay

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

Vincent Massey

#6. To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.

Jay Parini

#7. Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#8. Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion ... It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

Peter George Peterson

#9. What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Yolanda King

#10. QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.

Alexandra Robbins

#11. If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference and at heart you treat individuals with deep respect and want to see others flourish.

Gail Kelly

#12. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

Steven Levitan

#13. When neighbours interact with each other, it is only natural that sometimes they will run into problems of some kind or another. As long as they respect each other, properly manage differences, and pursue mutual benefits, there will be harmonious sound instead of jarring noises.

Li Keqiang

#14. Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#15. Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

Anthony Weston

#16. Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

J. H. Oldham

#17. Let's set aside our political and ideological differences and take a moment to love our families, hug our children, parents and grandparents and through love and respect, strengthen the bonds that made us the greatest nation on Earth.

James Lankford

#18. There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.

Ronnie Apteker

#19. While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

John McCain

#20. It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.

C. JoyBell C.

#21. Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said."
"But they are not your friends," said Nabir. "You don't know them."
"Respect first," Nabir would have said if he could have explained, "friendship after.

Rumer Godden

#22. Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

Richard M. Nixon

#23. I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.

Barack Obama

#24. It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.

Sam Harris

#25. Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.

Alexandra Robbins

#26. Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.

Dalai Lama

#27. Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

Paul Watson

#28. Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Edgar Allan Poe

#29. The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him. It seemed to leave him with a lasting sense that life was more complicated in practice than in theory - and that this was a good thing.

Yuval Levin

#30. Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.

Stacy Keibler

#31. Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Andre Gide

#32. The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

Ashraf Barhom

#33. I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

Tim Hardaway

#34. In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#35. when men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom

John Gray

#36. The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#37. The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity.

Henry Johnson Jr

#38. We add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall build a life with more justice.

Francisco Toledo

#39. Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

D.B. Harrop

#40. When man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

John Gray

#41. This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

Norman Lamm

#42. Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

Sharon Salzberg

#43. Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.

Tom Peters

#44. Respect man, love man. Respect his individuality, respect his differences. And that is possible only if you respect your individuality. That is possible only if you are grounded in your own being and you are unafraid.

Rajneesh

#45. the hope is that laying out what we understand about essential differences in the minds of men and women may lead to grater acceptance and respect of difference.

Simon Baron-Cohen

#46. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

Ben Carson

#47. In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.

Edward Abbey

#48. That's how real men settle their differences, through reasoned discussion and a dispassionate analysis. He farted as I reached the inner door, a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander

Ben Aaronovitch

#49. We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

John Lynch

#50. The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

Ruth Benedict

#51. Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

Tariq Ramadan

#52. Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.

Hugo Chavez

#53. In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

Kevin Spacey

#55. I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Andrew Young

#56. Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.

Sandra Scarr

#57. They suggest that with respect to facts, partisan differences are much less sharp than they seem - and that political polarization is often an artifact of the survey setting.

Cass R. Sunstein

#58. always normal man want sex,respect and understanding normal women wantsex, love and feeling the problem is when the thinking about differences we think about seduces

Adel

#59. The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

William P. Leahy

#60. Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

Nelson Mandela

#61. The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

Stephen Covey

#62. Understand, respect, and embrace other people's uniqueness. That is the foundation of any relationship - spouses, significant others, family, friends, etc. We are not the same and those differences are why relationships work. Spicing up a relationship with compromise!

David Mezzapelle

#63. The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Melba Pattillo Beals

#64. There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

Gertrude Stein