Deference Quotes

Deference Quote of the day

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself.

Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.