"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
Topic(s):
Respect
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
More From Abraham Joshua Heschel
- "A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
- "God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."
- "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
More In Respect
- "Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely."― Ted Nugent
- "With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision."― Roger Mahony
- "I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not."― P. J. Harvey