"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."
― James Brown
Topic(s):
Respect
― James Brown
More From James Brown
- "I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever ’cause he believed in God."
- "I’m kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more."
- "Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that."
More In Respect
- "I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."― Jackie Robinson
- "Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."― Orison Swett Marden
- "The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it’s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."― Alain de Botton