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Respect quotes
I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.
— Ane Krstevska
I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me
— Ender Wiggin
Recently, I have seen an increasing amount of disdain for political corectness, and I’ve been wondering why. Why is there so much hatred for a concept that was created solely so that people would respect one another?
— Cate O’Brien
Showing respect for others when they don’t agree with you, and during the times when you don’t agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
— Alice Hawthorne
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
— George B. McClellan
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
— Chaka Khan
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
— Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics
There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason – and of our own desires.
— Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life
I respect the audience’s intelligence a lot, and that’s why I don’t try to go for the lowest common denominator.
— Spike Lee
Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose–so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast.
— Terry A. O’Neal
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
— Louis L’Amour, The Daybreakers
Generous people are likely to receive more respect from their peers.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
I don’t expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.
— Roger Goodell
I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.
— Kenneth Patrick Ruscio
For parents, it is important to respect the personality of a child
— Sunday Adelaja
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
— Carol P. Christ
To take responsibility is to create respect for the church throughout the earth
— Sunday Adelaja
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can –it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
— Samuel Butler
Respect, love, trust; Every such thing works both ways.If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too.
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
— Vera Wang
With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It’s OK to fuck around if you’re a feminist but it’s also not OK to fuck around because most guys aren’t feminists and won’t respect you and won’t call you again if you fuck around.
— David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
— Persian proverb
People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it’s not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
One effect of an individualistic culture that’s poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
— Geoff Mulgan
Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it’s also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.
— Jenna Dewan
While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.
— Mohith Agadi
I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
— T. J. Miller
We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends us to the Gospel that we may be justified; and the Gospel sends us to the law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.
— Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds Of Christian Freedom
Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.
— Tyson Fury
In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.
— Arsene Wenger
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
— Vince Lombardi
New York gave me hell for that ‘Purple Swag, ‘ man. They didn’t respect me until ‘Peso.’
— ASAP Rocky
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Generosity brings you respect from people and those who are miser get hatred from people.
— Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn’t have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insolence.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.
— Rita Rudner
I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life; it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it.
— Bai Ling
Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
— H. P. Lovecraft
People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people’s individuality. Just because they’re not on your path doesn’t mean they are on the wrong track.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women.
— Debasish Mridha
Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He’s a warrior. He’s a hell of a warrior.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you’ll need their help. And two, because it’s a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
— Simon Sinek
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth’s ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
— Jim Fowler
Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
— Kiana Tom
After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.
— Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
It’s very hard to respect people on holiday – everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity – but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it’s a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
— Alain de Botton
I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it’s tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
— Venus Williams
Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.
— Kelly Bingham, Formerly Shark Girl
Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.
— Grace Paley
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.
— Jodie Foster
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
— Taylor Swift
If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn’t curse you until morning.
— Michael Muhammad Knight, The Taqwacores
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
— Barry Bonds
For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
— Audre Lorde
We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in whatever we do to help humanity.
— Auliq-Ice
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.
— Józef Piłsudski
The man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.
— kamar brown
The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.
— Joseph Bruchac
And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank
— Joseph Conrad, Falk
It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.
— Peter Maurin
Words of “unconditional love” defines as mothers love, respect your parents
— Sourav Adhikari
The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.
— alex elle
The truth is that the world doesn’t have much use or respect for “do nothing” people. Can you really blame them?
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.
— John Patrick Hickey, Oops! Did I Really Post That
It’s ok to think the way you think, just as long as you respect that it’s not the only way.
— Tanya Masse
A real pastor will always show respect for people.
— Pastor Adelaja Sunday
The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that’s the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.
— Kishore Chandra Deo
I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it’s part of my life.
— Juanes
Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you’ll get it.
— S. Usher Evans, Conviction
The time has come, that man should change his ideas to respect the woman and woman should her to trust the man. Now social interactions need a better way to grow up.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.
— Rene Char
To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.
— Raif Badawi, 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
— Michael Moore
I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don’t respect anyone.
— Prathima Bhandary
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
— Jenny Agutter
I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.
— Andres Iniesta
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
— Louis Pasteur
Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve?
— Saurabh Sharma
I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.
— Harry Styles
Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
— John Stuart Mill
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
— Douglas Jerrold
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
— Mother Teresa
I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons ‘The Apprentice’ was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.
— Donald Trump
I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.
— M.J. Abraham
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
— Jackie Robinson
People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.
— Eraldo Banovac
People won’t respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.
— Amit Kalantri
I don’t want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
— Vince Carter
If you respect yourself, you will respect others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
I respect marriage, and I think it’s beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
— Camila Alves
When people who don’t know you well admire you, they are seeing their projected illusion, not your real self.In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.
— Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader
The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
— Martin O’Malley
Wouldn’t you rather have the respect of your friends and colleagues than succumb to pressure to do and say things that are out of character in order to feel accepted? You can overcome this habit simply by learning to say “no.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
A dog knows and respects his master; men respect their masters only under duress, envy them and plot their downfall.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
— James A. Michener, Hawaii
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
— June Jordan
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.
— Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
— Barbara Ward
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
— U Thant
Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces
— Sunday Adelaja
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‘suspects.’
— Noam Chomsky
It’s not ‘over-sensitivity’ to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
— DaShanne Stokes
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
— Sophia Bush
Family are people who never earn your respect or love but demand it nevertheless.
— Greg Keyes, The Blackgod
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions
— Emanuel Swedenborg
In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
— Beau Bridges
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
— Albert Camus
Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.
— Auliq-Ice
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
— Albert Camus
The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.
— T Jay Taylorlor
The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of awakening the consciousness of every being.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.
— Terraine Francois
Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that’s just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it.
— Tilicia Haridat
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
— Rumi
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.
— John R. Dallas Jr.
I respect the shit out of you.
— Brian Michael Bendis, Powers, Vol. 5: Anarchy
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
— Confucius, Sayings of Confucius
Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
I’ve learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect ’cause I like me…. I think I’m kind of cool.
— Whoopi Goldberg
Identify confident people whom you admire and respect and notice what they do differently to project such confidence. Learn by observing role models.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.
— Mo Farah
We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
— John Boehner
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Don’t hurt other people on the name of respecting your family, they may be wrong sometimes. Learn to listen, understand & respect everyone.
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling… How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
— Josephine Baker
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.
— Jon Hamm
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
— Jean Piaget
People who don’t respect the time you spent with them, don’t know they have lost the gift of good memories.
— Aditya Bhaskara
Respect, love, Trust; Every such things works both ways. If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too.
— Sandesh limbu
I don’t believe in an afterlife. I don’t believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don’t believe it myself.
— Tony Judt
Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don’t like Rod Laver because he’s such a vicious competitor, but I don’t dislike him.
— Pancho Gonzales
I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
— Blake Lively
JACKSON: When I give my word I mean that sh*t and I have no respect for anyone who breaks their word so easily.
— Jordan Silver, The Forever Girl
President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
— John F. Kerry
He could do with some lunch. Especially since that bastard Sloane gave his Cheesy Doodles away. What kind of guy does that? A bastard, that’s who. Did he not respect the male code of honor—thou shalt not steal another dude’s snacks?–Dex
— Charlie Cochet, Hell & High Water
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother’s generation.
— Sara Sheridan
Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
— Bruce Nordstrom
Your respect for people does not mean you need themThis is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.
— Waciny Laredj, Histoires minuscules des révolutions arabes
In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
— Kina Grannis
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
— Michael Jordan
Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.
— Janaki Sooriyarachchi, Emirosy
If people respect your age and not your personality, then it’s time for you to do some urgent introspection.
— Amit Kalantri
But it’s important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
— Anna Quindlen
Don’t go the distance trying to fit in the crowd and be accepted by others. Accept and respect yourself first. Loving thyself also goes with this.”-Elizabeth’s Quotes
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
— Winston Churchill
Let’s all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance.
— Dean Ornish
If you don’t respect money, it won’t respect you.
— Orrin Woodward
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base… But I haven’t found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them… Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I’ve met.
— John Hughes
Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others’ motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication.
— Deborah A. Beasley
Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.
— Mother Angelica
People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don’t measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn’t real.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Worrying about how you’ll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you’re still alive.
— Charles Cumming
Why don’t women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama’s recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don’t make ’em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?
— Brandon T. Jackson
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.
— Heather O’Reilly
Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.
— Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
It’s one thing I like about America – they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don’t try to knock them down. And that’s a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It’s so patriotic!
— David Beckham
We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, “Does this show respect for GodPeopleSelf?
— Pam Farrel, 10 Questions Kids Ask About Sex: *Knowing What to Say*Guiding Them to Wise Decisions*Giving Age-Appropriate Answers
If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
— Vironika Tugaleva
A woman’s strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence…
— Virginia Alison
And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn’t really lose anything, except respect for everyone.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
— Orson Scott Card, Earthfall
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
— Laurence Sterne
Don’t respect or trust any one out of your limit.Because if u cross the bridge of your patience and emotions for any one. Then you will find yourself as a broken mirror
— Agha Kousar
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn’t mean that we didn’t have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
— Patti Smith
I don’t have to participate in another culture’s ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
— Sherman Alexie
If you don’t respect me you’re not gonna get that respect back.
— David Hasselhoff
Animals do not respect their master’s brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.
— Evan Meekins, The Black Banner
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
— Samuel Johnson
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
— Wilfrid Laurier
Hopefully, imparting what’s important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
— Thomas Keller
A woman is soft, kind, and loving. When you are in danger, she is always ready to sacrifice herself to save you. So never forget to respect her.
— Debasish Mridha
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can – it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
— Samuel Butler
All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: ‘Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God’s order which, in its great variety, is in us all.
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
— Thorstein Veblen
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
— Georg Simmel
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
— Charles de Gaulle
I respect a woman who can respect me when I’m not around.
— Mark W. Boyer
Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.
— Aspen Baker, Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
I respect Billy Joel, but I’m not a guy who’s gonna sit down and listen to the entire ‘Essential Billy Joel.’
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
— Igor Stravinsky
Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.
— Ellen J. Barrier
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
— Mark Twain
How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.
— Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There’d Be Cake
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I’ve got no respect for any young man who won’t join the colors.
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
— Shailene Woodley
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect — they want to go with the winners.
— Ralph Nader, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Cheating, betraying its easy, changing partner like clothes its easy that’s why people run there.Honesty is so difficult , only people with power of self respect Do it.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, “Zaki’s Gift Of Love”
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
Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
— Jay Kay
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
— Winston S. Churchill
You can’t get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers, but you don’t need them to be your buddies.
— Kate White, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Love is a funny business. It cannot be commanded but it commands us; it commands respect and unselfishness. Love cannot be sucked out of another in the hopes that it fills us up, because love is not a selfish quest.
— Jem Okan, I Am Heaven: A Story of Self-Discovery, Acceptance, and Faith.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
— K. D. Lang
If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave…
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
— Deborah Sampson
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it’s still being made all over the place, all the time.
— Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
— Victor Ponta
The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.
— Dada Bhagwan
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
— Henry Waxman
I’m a scientist, not a theologian. I don’t know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
— James Lovelock
Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys’ skin a little bit, and maybe they don’t want to admit it, and I think that’s, in a way, healthy.
— John McEnroe
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
— Sylvia Earle
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise – and to the best in benefits and medical care.
— Sue Kelly
We’ve got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
— Dorothy Height
I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
— Allan Hamilton
All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
It’s okay if there isn’t a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don’t want to be the center of my own universe
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
I didn’t cry. Real things don’t make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I’m like most civilised humans.
— Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf
I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.
— Michelle Pfeiffer
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
— James Nachtwey
I think as long as you wear your imperfections on your sleeve, people respect it more.
— Shamir
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
— Christiane Amanpour
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
— Rania Al Abdullah
If you don’t accept and respect your suffering, it isn’t going anywhere.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I turned down twelve films last year… Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
— Shia LaBeouf
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
— James Rollins, Ice Hunt
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
— Charles de Gaulle
The scent of growth, quiet and green, hung heavy in the air. I heard everything. I saw everything. I could count the craters on the moon. I could count every mosquito buzz past, bypassing my tender skin out of respect for a fellow bloodsucker.
— Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
— Carlos Ghosn
The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.
— Herb Goldberg
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
— Sam Harris
The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
— Charles Handy
Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
— Will Cuppy
I love and really respect strong women. I’m obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
— Vanessa Hudgens
I’m just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
— Garth Davis
To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.
— Criss Jami
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.
— Margaret Thatcher
Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
— Pierre Niney
Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
— Irina Shayk
Holmes, ” I cried, “this is impossible.” “Admirable!” he said. “A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Nature responds to your respect and gratitude by creating a magical energy of blessings in return.
— Eileen Anglin
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
— Helmut Kohl
It’s time to respect yourself and your dream, both truly deserve that respect. be the person you would do anything for. Be the person you will not let down.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
— Dalai Lama
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
The people who harvest America’s food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
— Frances Beinecke
When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
— Rene Redzepi
The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.
— Buzz Aldrin
I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
— Tiger Woods
Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There’s nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
— Sherry Argov
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
— J. B. Priestley
I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
— Kristy Swanson
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
— William Lyon Phelps
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
I couldn’t do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we’d go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
— Chris Colfer
Settings are obviously important – and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you’re writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.
— Joan Lingard
All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don’t think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don’t lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.
— William Ritter, The Dire King
Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know… Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can’t do that. I just– Maybe I have too much respect for walls… or something.
— Pansy Schneider-Horst
It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.
— Amit Howard
if he wants to be a whore then let him. if he chooses to degrade and demean himself, just walk away. you can’t make a man respect you, the relationship or himself.
— R.H. Sin
Spiritual romance is based on mutual respect and kindness.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) democratic procedures 4) respect for human personality 5) a belief that all people are one.
— Bayard Rustin
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
— Anthony Collins
I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn’t need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, ‘I didn’t marry a tennis player; you’d retired.’ Now it’s time to do something else.
— Thomas Muster
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
— Ralph W. Sockman
‘Metals’ has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I’m growing the muscles I want to grow again.
— Feist
I fear God and respect God and love God.
— Brett Ratner
Drummond appreciated his guest’s initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.
— Jean Zimmerman, The Orphanmaster
I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.
— Giancarlo Esposito
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
— Albert Einstein
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
— Jerry Falwell
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you’ve got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
— Nat King Cole
Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.
— Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
A lot of the time, the way it’s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.
— Harry Styles
It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don’t, so that’s the main quality that would make a good man a great man.
— Stephanie Sigman
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced
— Albert Einstein
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life…
— Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
I respect the opinions of others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
— Mark Van Doren
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
— Dave Matthews
It is of vital importance to [Mandela] to be courteous and grateful at all times, as we never know whether we will have the opportunity to thank people or pay respect whenever they have been good to you.
— Zelda la Grange
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
— John Lennon
When taking on a leadership role in business remember it’s about relationships. If your people (aka employees) are taken care of then they will respect you and return the favor.
— Michael A. Contés II
I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.
— Giuliana Rancic
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
— Jena Malone
In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be equally entitled to participation, free speech and development. We should abandon prejudices, respect differences, and be tolerant and open.
— Lu Wei
The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
— Amma
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.
— Frans de Waal
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
— Robertson Davies
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army – as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.
— Kurt Student
Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline and self-discipline paves a way for respect towards others.
— Unarine Ramaru
The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words.
— Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
The French have the right respect for dogs–in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.
— Sheron Long
Imagination is more important than knowledge”, with due respect to Mr. Einstein, I beg to differ! “Imagination is not possible without knowledge.
— I are
Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
— William P. Young
Why you’ll never see a woman with a bomb in her shoe: we have too much respect for shoes.
— Carolyn V. Hamilton
If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.
— Yanan Melo, Aggressing the Predatory Lions
I like a family guy. He must be fun, must like to go out, and has to respect his mom… my family is very important, so it should be likewise for him.
— Christina Milian
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
— Bainbridge Colby
Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that’s church, Allah, or any sort of higher being – they all have a humbleness.
— BJ the Chicago Kid
Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!
— Carlos Castillo, The Road to High Income: Why You Should Charge More: The Complete Guide to Raising Prices and Making More Money Without Losing to Competitors
An act of terrorismis not an ideology, nor religion.It is the lack of hope, of opportunityand of love.When there is no recourse, no other waythere is only insurrection.Understanding, compassionand respect for all lifeis what will save us all.
— Mahima Martel, The Insurrectionist
He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
— Vince Lombardi
Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.
— Arlene Dickinson
A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
— Adam Clayton
Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
— John Godfrey Saxe
Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don’t be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!!
— Assegid Habtewold
Don’t expect others to respect you, if you can’t respect your self.
— “Beta” Metani’ Marashi
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
— Eugen Herrigel
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world…
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
You just…you don’t take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You’re real, and people respect you a lot for that.
— Christina Daley, Radiant
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
— William Hazlitt
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
— George Soros
I live the life of a farmer. I don’t see how I could wear Lagerfeld’s designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.
— Brigitte Bardot
I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
— Ranbir Kapoor
Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering, and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved…
— Kate Mullane Robertson
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
— William Lyon Phelps
Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
— Jasmine Guinness
I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.
— Steven Magee
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
— Ernest Istook
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect – they’re all empty.
— Robert Gottlieb
You wanna respect???- I don’t see you to show it… if you show it I will respect you as a character.
— Deyth Banger
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
— Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
I don’t much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I’m not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
— Orhan Pamuk
Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.
— John Stoker, Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold Real Conversations That Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.
— Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man’s Best Friend
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
— Orhan Pamuk
Just because you’re married doesn’t mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can’t have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand – and respect – that you need time apart doing what you want to do.
— John Rampton
Ownership of words is the reason, only few of us truly keep and respect our words. If you won’t keep yours, it’s probably not yours.
— Seun Ayilara
Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he’ll never truly command it.
— Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.
— Steve Goodier
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
— Dalai Lama
I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that… life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.
— Benjamin Watson
Brave men don’t belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
— Harry Truman
A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.
— Tionne Watkins
It needs a very long time to earn a great respect but it just needs a few second to spoil all respect…
— Shehryar
Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.
— August Wilson
I’ve been treating you with courtesy and respect because that’s the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.
— Louise Penny, Still Life
I like a man who can respect a woman. When he’s real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.
— Lea Seydoux
People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that’s not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.
— Cherie Blair
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
— Mark Wahlberg
We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.
— Sunday Adelaja
I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
— Marcus Samuelsson
To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her… Respect must show in action.
— Kathryn Pyne Addelson, Impure Thoughts: Essays on Philosophy, Feminism, and Ethics
I am also open minded to embrace strange notions and respect its bearers without harsh judgement. Exposure has made me feel confident and wiser to choose what feels right for me, in order to be the best human being for myself and others.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, I Am Tausi
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
— Timothy Garton Ash
I don’t think there’s any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don’t like or respect in at least some way or another. We’re all marginal laborers – we’re practically medical oddities – so I don’t see why we can’t all be nice to each other.
— Chris Ware
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even it
— Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Letter Collections Of Peter Of Blois: Studies In The Manuscript Tradition
Don’t be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.
— Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.
— Stellan Skarsgard
A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
— Tom Cruise
Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.
— Gioconda Belli, The Inhabited Woman
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I’m not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
— Gabby Douglas
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
MANDELA: ” a man deemed to be the greatest icon in Africa. his life thought me couple of lessons that always inspires me to strive hard for respect and to make an impact on humanity. may his footsteps continue to live for ever on the sands of time.
— victor adeagbo
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that “ancient institution ” the old one.
— Douglas Jerrold
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it’s not because I’m a hero.
— Ani DiFranco
A friend drops their plans when you’re in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you’re in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice–but when you don’t follow it, they still respect and love you.
— Doris Wild Helmering
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
— Iman
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
— Joseph Joubert
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
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
— Maya Angelou
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
— Fidel Castro
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I’m pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
— George A. Romero
I have not encouraged talk about man’s holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man’s right to have it.
— Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives
Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let’s listen to each other and respect one another’s opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.
— Felicia Johnson, Her
I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.
— Tiberius
I’ve got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
— Ian Rush
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
— Samuel Johnson
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, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.
— Jenny McCarthy, Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Love met with respect and grand style Love – A flirtation with true lovers of love had taken his salvific beginning.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems: Love Conquers All
power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life
— blanco vandam
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
— Jack Nicklaus
You can never see my tears behind my anger and smile. The only thing you can see is my respect for you, because you deserve for it….
— V Partap Singh Salathia
I will respect the limits of my experience but that won’t stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.
— Anthony Rizzo
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
— Lao Tzu
I don’t respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.
— Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.
— Liza Wiemer
People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.
— C.J. Anderson, Klarity
Seek to make others feel comfortable by demonstrating respect for their individual needs as well as their cultural norms. Your consideration and heightened awareness will guide you well—and help you make a great first impression.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I’m this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
— Peter Falk
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Regard those who respect you.Esteem those who honor you.Cherish those who love you.Reward those who adore you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.
— Shilpa Sandesh
Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.
— Christopher Gerard, Talon: A Jack Rawson Saga
Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.
— Lisa Murkowski
I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social – or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
— Mitt Romney
When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights – that we respect and uphold their rights.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
— Albert Schweitzer
He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
— Ben Lindsey
If you treat every question like you’ve never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.
— Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
I don’t need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I’ve never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word ‘friend.’ I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
— Stefanie Powers
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
— Horst Koehler
We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?
— Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge
I don’t get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I’m doing it the right way. You can’t do nothing but respect that.
— Ice Cube
I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don’t think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
— Naveen Jain
You don’t have to like a man to respect him.
— Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress
He checked her over while mentally checking himself. “Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary—you’ve got that, right?”One corner of her mouth curled up. “Absolutely.
— G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality – the Arab people like me and respect me – thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
— Omar Sharif
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
— John W. Gardner
With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don’t want to know.
— Warwick Middleton
If a boy doesn’t respect his mother…run!
— Tracy Yates, Suzy Freaking Q: The Defintive Renegade High School Handbook on What to Say and What to Do about Guys, Friends, Parents and More.
When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.
— Andra Day
A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.
— Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It’s the holiest place in the world for Jews. It’s the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others’ rights, freedom of religion.
— Naftali Bennett
Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by those with power can be ominous. The link between humiliation and atrocity is often found.
— Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
— Ban Ki-moon
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
— Abraham H. Maslow
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
— George Santayana
I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what’s become some pretty significant training.
— Eliza Dushku
You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can’t betray that. And if you don’t betray that, it will not betray you.
— Theresa Rebeck
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
It is hard to earn the respect of others when you do not respect yourself. Others may find it difficult to enjoy your company if you do not enjoy your own.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
— Renee Olstead
We don’t yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
— Alice Miller
I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama. I respect everyone – but we over-respect no one.
— Mo’Nique
He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.
— Bessie A. Stanley
I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.
— Christopher Hitchens
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
— Nathaniel Branden
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Don’t expect too much from people who don’t even have respect for themselves.
— Gift Gugu Mona
I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.
— Amit Kalantri
I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
You will never gain anyone’s approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I’ve lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, ‘We have played with 10 today, ‘ but that’s it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
— Eden Hazard
With an attitude of respect and concern for other beings, we can create an atmosphere of happiness, real harmony and real brotherhood.
— Zahid Abas
Don’t let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition.
— Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
In good organizations, leaders are treated with a sense of appreciation and respect by employees; in great organizations, employees are treated with the same esteem by leaders.
— Kevin E. Phillips, Employee Leaps: Leveraging Engagement by Applying Positive Strategies
I have the utmost respect and ‘aloha’ for black people – who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
— Duane Chapman
My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that.
— Don Ho
All respect is earned, even self-respect.
— Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man
Relationships should have some limitations, because without limitations one cannot maintain his respect and love.
— Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
— Amit Kalantri
I have a satellite radio show called ‘The Legends of Reggae.’ It’s a cool way to branch out and do other things. I’m paying respect to the legends of reggae.
— Ziggy Marley
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.
Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about – and make a few million along the way – then I have been successful.
— Bill Rancic
I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.
— Terry Gou
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture – community, hard work, perseverance, respect – contribute directly to our success.
— Troy Polamalu
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
— L. G. Elliott
I’m not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don’t think it’ll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
— Chris Brown
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
— Lisi Harrison
To be respected, respect others.
— Debasish Mridha
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF.
— Unknown
Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
— Herbert Hoover
You’ve gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you’ve got to race hard against them. It’s very simple; if there’s respect both ways, there’s no problem.
— Juan Pablo Montoya
Don’t care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.
— Matthew Woodring Stover, Blade of Tyshalle
What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent).
— Dada Bhagwan
If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.
— Stevenson Willis, Thes Proverbs of Leadership
I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
— Charles Lindbergh
We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
— Malala Yousafzai
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
— Nancy McKeon
He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.
— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
If your religion doesn’t respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
— Roger Ebert
Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
There’s no respect for older people at all today, and that’s saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there’s no calling people ‘Mr’ or ‘Mrs’ now, they just call you, and it’s all ‘fuck off’ and the likes of.
— Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain’s Hardest Man
People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
— Rachel Hollis, Party Girl
learn to experience and learn to respect , i love my culture and i respect iti m proud to be Xhosa
— Saziso Lucas
A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
— Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State
We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.
— Mark Twain
You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It’s good for our party. But I’ve got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in ’96.
— Joe Lieberman
Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.
— Douglas Kirkland
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
— Salvador Dalí
Live your life in such a way that you’ll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
— Germany Kent
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
— H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
— Joseph Butler
In your big mind, everything has the same value…In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
— Shunryu Suzuki
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
— Dorothy Height
It’s always Canelo, and it’s Mexican Independence Day, so I know that. But I am the champion, and just looking back on that, that is one reason why I hope they’ll respect that I’m champion and be fair.
— Liam Smith
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
— Horace Walpole
Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?
— Chris Sardegna
Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
— Barack Obama
We are at a point now where people respect us and respect our work – the guys want to sit down and watch women’s matches.
— Sasha Banks
Future is the son of Women.because women give birth to future….give respect to all women.
— Kuldeep kandasi
I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would’ve previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.
— Corin Nemec
I respect Apple. It’s a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
— Jack Ma
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
— Suzi Quatro
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
— Cat Stevens
If they’re not going to respect you, then they best damn well fear you.
— Carroll Bryant, Children of the Flower Power
Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.
— Steve Bullock
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.
— Martin O’Malley
It is better to be a king in the jungle and be celebrated than to be an unknown champion where you’d not be afforded the kind of respect you deserve.
— Olawale Daniel
Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.
— Turcois Omine
I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.
— Tom Brady
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.
— Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
Some of the most beautiful and rewarding relationships come from mutual respect that eventually burned into fervent passion. Don’t take for granted the friendship you are building at the moment, just appreciate it and cherish it for what it is.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow
— Kishore Bansal
Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
— Joseph Priestley
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.
— Jason Schwartzman
His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we’re both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I have great respect for people’s right to believe what they want to believe. And I don’t think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.
— Colin Kaepernick
We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
— Pope Benedict XVI
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
— George Bancroft
Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
— Red Adair
Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
The song says respect yourself.But I would rather respect another and then have them respect me in return.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.
— Michael Coren, Why Catholics are Right
The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything.
— Auliq Ice
football is like life – it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
— C.S. Lewis
True respect respects all men, it values all people.
— Sunday Adelaja, Create Your Own Net Worth
There is nothing in our book, the Qur’an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
— Malcolm X
Nothing is easy, ” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.
— Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill
To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.
— Criss Jami
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
— Mitt Romney
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
— James H. Douglas, Jr.
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges, ‘ which require global solidarity.
— Ban Ki-moon
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated
Loyalty starts with a demonstration of respect and gratitude.
— Chip Bell
Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has deep respect for women of the world, will remain free from diseases.
— Amit Ray
Whenever I wish to pay my respect to you, my middle finger says, it must first.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
— Mikhail Bakunin
I’m proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.
— Ellen Greene
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
— Malcolm X
I certainly respect other people’s opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
— Charles Stanley
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It’s about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
— Jim Leach
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
— Bertrand Russell
Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.
— Julieanne O’Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
I have great respect for you – once you are dead, and gone
— Fakeer Ishavardas
I treat all women with the utmost respect both professionally and personally and would never do anything to disrespect them.
— Ranveer Singh
Fight and eliminate your evil thoughts for your honour, and own respect to become the best, and the great human, if you are the conscious and sentient person.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
— Lisa Ling
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
— Eric Braeden
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals ‘love’ them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
— Edwin Way Teale
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.
— Richard Attias
In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.
— Theo E. Colborn
Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.
— Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
— Aristotle
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
— Jan Blaustone
We shouldn’t be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.
— Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education
However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
— Robert Dale Owen
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
— James F. Byrnes
I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.
— Kevin Hart
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
— Bertrand Russell
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.
— Robert Mugabe
You don’t have to understand woman. You only have to respect them and understand why.
— Matt Leani
your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity).
— Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
If a person loves you but doesn’t respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery.
— Sekar Arum
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
— Chinua Achebe
One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don’t need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don’t need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.
— Marcella Purnama, What I Wish I Had Known
To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.
— Sarah Arthur, Dating Mr. Darcy
There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
I’m not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.
— Rafael dos Anjos
Everything you love, enjoy, respect or value will somehow find top priority, even without excessive conscious reminders. Show respect through the way you manage time, especially when others are involved or affected.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have zero respect for knowledge, that’s what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.”Kego O’Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merrick
— Steve Merrick
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
— Marcia Fudge
I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.
— Lindsay Lohan
I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
— Deborah Kerr
To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride’s attendants.
— Vera Wang
If he or she doesn’t see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
There is no faster way to garner the lasting respect of employees, partners, and consumers than to become the embodiment of an ideal.
— Gregory V. Diehl, Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company’s Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
— Larry Bird
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
— Richard Bach
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
— Lafcadio Hearn
But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out
— Nora Roberts, The Witness
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
— Randy West
Being honest with the public is how they respect you.
— Angel Haze
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
— Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine
My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.
— Peter Navarro
When a woman’s face is wrinkledAnd her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday!Aside she’s cast, No one respect will pay;Remember, Lasses, remember.And while the sun shines make hay:You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.
— Ann Rinaldi, Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family
I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.
— Steve Largent
Their story, yours, mine – it’s what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.
— William Carlos Williams
The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the ‘rank’ is not absolute. ‘True respect’ is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.
— Rajat Mishra, Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake?
Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country… my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go – do your work.
— Raghuram Rajan
As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
— Martin McGuinness
When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.
— John Maxwell
if you don’t play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, “Zaki’s Gift Of Love”
I always respect a woman.
— Enrique Iglesias
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
— Benjamin E. Mays
We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn’t want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.
— Alex Morgan
Respect your passion and work on it. Your passion will respect you back.
— Keyur Kumbhare
It is sweet that people want to know everything about my wedding, but they should also respect my privacy.
— Divyanka Tripathi
As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people on the front lines, and hence cause them to disregard the value in front-line ideas.
— Dean M. Schroeder, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
I have a mentor. I have… guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Fools who don’t respect the past are doomed to repeat it.
— Nico Robin
Men didn’t respect beauty…they used it.
— Nora Roberts, Montana Sky
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy – I don’t disparage envy, but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To respect my nature is to know my nature.
— Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld
The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
— Karisma Kapoor
I respect Jay-Z. I like him.
— Paul Anka
Brothers and sisters, if your spouse doesn’t feel good about something, show respect for those feelings. When you take the easy way out by saying and doing nothing, you may be enabling destructive behavior.
— Larry R. Lawrence
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
— Aristotle, Poetics
Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That’s the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.
— Joe Montana
Benjy’s greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.
— André Alexis
I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.
— Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller’s Story
It is not that I don’t have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.
— Peter Benchley
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.
— Studs Terkel
You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.
— Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.
— Amit Kalantri
Experts in fields can be hired & fired. But experts in people, who can understand & respect them and lead them becomes their Leader. And people don’t fire them, they follow leaders.
— msampathkumar
I even believe if you’re killing a team, you shouldn’t stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you’re getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
— Sue Wicks
I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.
— Pep Guardiola
Love is yet another name for Respect. If you cannot respect a person for what they are; you can never ever truly, madly, or deeply love that person.
— Nikita Dudani
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.
— Sarah Polley
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
— Tecumseh
all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.
— Damien Keown, Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
You know Schmeckle, people are like feet. Most everyone has a pair and yet feet are so unique. So, we must treat all people with respect and accept their unique way.
— Ellen Newhouse, Nothing Ever Goes On Here
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
— Thiruvalluvar
Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other to make it lasting.
— John
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.
— Penn Jillette
I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.
— Colin Kaepernick
I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.
— Alex Guarnaschelli
I’ve been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they’ve been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don’t care about the world.
— Thomas Friedman
Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.
— Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
— P. Chidambaram
One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
— Sanford I. Weill
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.
— Hillary Clinton
Never treat people with disdain, they all deserve your respect irrespective of their faith or religion
— Sunday Adelaja
The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
But just as quantity wins respect and honour for a church, it is quality that provides a church with safety and protection.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
— Dale Murphy
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
— Robert Schumann
The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.
— Robert Ferrigno
Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That’s what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.
— Marty Rubin
I don’t care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like – I’m kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can’t get rid of me. I just keep coming back.
— David Hasselhoff
I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
— Zubin Mehta
Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
— Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.
— Michelle Obama
There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen – that is my right, too.
— Marco Rubio
Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.
— Dave Champion
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
— Thucydides
There’s a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
— J. Michael Straczynski
If we have reverence for God, we will have respect for one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
— Theodore Bikel
To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
— Roopleen
We should not take our ‘Humanity’ for granted. We should love and respect things as if they were ourselves.
— Sandranil Biswas
I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.
— David Bowie
I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.
— Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook
I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
— Donald Trump
Bottom line, I have nothing but respect for Peyton Manning… He was always a great teammate to me; he’s still a great friend to this day.
— Brock Osweiler
Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they’re just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.
— Rush Limbaugh
We want to uplift the culture of Filipino – our respect to our elders, how we pray before we eat and sleep. These are things the younger generations tend to forget because of our exposure to other cultures.
— Coco Martin
Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn’t necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.
— Susan Estrich
My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn’t want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn’t have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn’t respect that. We tried to make him independent.
— James D. Watson
So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn’t mind– no that’s not right–he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.
— Lynn Morris, Shadow of the Mountains
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
— Aristotle
I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
— Christopher Hitchens
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals – not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
— Joanna Lumley
You are here to live your purpose not to please others. If they truly respect you they will respect your choices too.
— Latika Teotia
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
— Helen Andelin
Children respect teachers today not for their knowledge but for the marks they give. Teachers respect children today not for the intelligence they have but for the threat they pose. That is the state of education today!
— Uma Shanker
If you’re going to write about someone’s life, you don’t just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
— Nick Flynn
I’ve always felt a certain guilt to have them labeled as ‘Christina’s sisters’ or, ‘That’s Christina’s mom’ but them looking for the respect to be named Elizabeth and Danielle and Carmen.
— Christina Milian
You always get more respect when you don’t have a happy ending.
— Julia Quinn
Stop and think about who you are and where you’ve come from. Love yourself and comfort your spirit. Don’t go wandering the streets looking for love and attention. Self love and respect must be a priority
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.
— Auliq Ice
Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.
— Leslie S. Greenberg, Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
— Tina Fey
As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that’s all I can ask for.
— Darren Flutie
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
— Robert B. Laughlin
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
— Orson Welles
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
— Anton Chekhov
Kids are kids and not little adults. They’re watching and listening to you all the time. They’re figuring out the game plan but still don’t know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they’ll respect you for it.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets.
— Ellen J. Barrier
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
— Walter Scott
The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.
— Pope Francis
If a women ask for respect instead of earning it then they are weak.
— Swapnil Kumar
If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
— Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking
The way people want to get respect for their culture and language, it is critical to reciprocate the same to other else you don’t have any right to condemn others
— Pankaj Gupta
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
— Adolf Hitler
I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
— Javier Bardem
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
— Adam Yauch
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other’s rights.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
— Evo Morales
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
— Maurice Saatchi
I dont care if you have the smallest part to do with my life or the largest, I love everyone I’ve ever met, and if you don’t like me i still respect you as a person rather than hate you for what you believe in.
— Shane Phillips
I’m theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.
— Marco Rubio
If someone doesn’t care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don’t hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.
— Saurabh Sharma
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
— Malcolm X
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
— E. W. Howe
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
— William Hazlitt
Everyone deserves respect and justice no matter what they look like.
— Lesley Kinzel, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that’s, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he’s a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
— Emma Watson
I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.
— Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Watchwords
Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.
— Richie Norton
I have nothing against Dylan O’Brien! He’s one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work.
— Katherine McNamara
Affirmations: “I love & respect my mind, body, spirit.” & “I do what best nurtures all parts of myself.” & “I thrive on wholeness.” Namaste!
— Jay Woodman
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
— Robert A. Heinlein
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
— William Lyon Phelps
It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
— Estelle Parsons
Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.
— Eleanor Henderson, Ten Thousand Saints
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America’s independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
— Kenny Marchant
You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: ‘When you respect money, money will respect you.’
— Yaya Toure
Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions…and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
If you want to impress a lady, respect her, because respect is an impressive act itself
— Nitin Yaduvanshi, Absolute Love Letter
A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it’s essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.
— Lee Tamahori
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don’t respect cowards.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
— Stephen Fry
Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation.
— Darrell Calkins, Re:
I have respect for beer.
— Russell Crowe
A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life.
— Euginia Herlihy
Marriage is the most sacred union in which much respect is given in society to those who treat it as such.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple’s Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they’re really difficult to write and write well.
— Rashida Jones
We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.
— Christopher Moore
I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.
— Arjun Rampal
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.
— Erykah Badu
Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
— Michelle Bachelet
People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does!
— Gary Patton
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
— Shakira
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
— Harvey Milk
Employees don’t need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding.
— Kathryn Minshew
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he’s been a great vice president. He’s taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.
— David Axelrod
I find blow jobs to be highly respectable. In fact, I can’t think of many things I respect more than your lips around my cock.
— Heather M. Orgeron, Boomerangers
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
— William Hazlitt
I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!
— Rebecca McKinsey, Anterria
Never ever forget that you enlisted in the ranks – you weren’t press ganged or drafted. Nobody owes you anything – least of all respect for your work – until you’ve earned it with what you put on the page.
— T.F. Rigelhof
a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.
— Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream
I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Those with sick fantasies who know and respect this difference are much less dangerous than those with no fantasies at all, but who can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
— T.J. Dixon, Peter and the Heart of Alchemy
I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity
— Brian Kiteley
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
— Ellen Barkin
I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
— Lil’ Kim
It’s not an easy gig, being in the NRL sometimes: you always feel for the boys because you have that mutual respect knowing what they go through.
— Sonny Bill Williams
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
— Martin Lawrence
There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’ My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.
— Adora Svitak
Compelled respect always implies fear.
— A.S. Neill, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don’t.
— R.A.Delmonico
The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.
— Tanya Masse
With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like.
— Hillary Clinton
When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Would you rather have people be impressed by who you are or respect who you’ve become?
— Paula Sours
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
— Milo Ventimiglia
P.I. Cassie Cruise–You don’t have to like her, but you damn well better respect her
— S.L. Ellis, Lane Changes
I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
— Bob Iger
If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.
— Mo Ibrahim
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
The journey into wholeness means we have to learn to respect the other voice that speaks within us. It means to pay attention to our emotions, thoughts, dreams and fantasies even when they’re unpleasant and objectionable.
— Bud Harris, Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance
There’s only one way we’re going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
— Mark McKinnon
For there is no respect of persons with God.
— Anonymous
Love comes from within, respect comes from within, acceptance comes from within, forgiveness comes from within; reach inside for Your Truth and find your Royalty.
— Akiroq Brost
I’m not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.
— Dick Cheney
Appreciate her beauty, love her uniqueness and respect her reality.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don’t respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.
— Reuven Rivlin
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death.
— Lee Iacocca
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
— Bette Davis
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
— André Gide
Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us cover to protect our soulsin both cases, respect their choices.
— Anjum Choudhary
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
— Tom Bissell, Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
— Ben Lindsey
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
— Anna Lindh
Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
— Stephen Hadley
…success is when those who know you best respect you most.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
— Bertrand Russell
The director respects what they’ve hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you’re doing.
— Robert De Niro
You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.
— Amber Heard
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
— B. R. Ambedkar
I have a lot of respect for tough coaches.
— Reggie White
The only situation that I can’t be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.
— Mauricio Macri
Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl’s Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.
— Harshit Walia
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
— Ausonius
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
— Hideki Tojo
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!
— Dolly Parton
To learn etiquette, is actually learning how to see others, and respect them.
— Yixing Zhang, 而立·24
Under Superintendent Johnson’s leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
— Rahm Emanuel
You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The more we respect other creatures, the more respect our humanity will get!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others’religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of theworld’s religions is a sacred duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I don’t necessarily respect other people’s religions, or any religion. But the people–I respect them, and I give them the honor they deserve, whatever they believe.
— Rosemary Kirstein, The Steerswoman
The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
— Zachary Taylor
Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.
— Mollie Marti
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
— Dan Quayle
Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz — Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.
— Benito Juárez
I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.
— Liza M. Wiemer
Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed.
— Brett J. Talley, That Which Should Not Be
How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?
— Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it’s the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn’t matter who you are: I’m going to respect you.
— Andy Reid
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
— William Hazlitt
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis
We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.
— Saaif Alam
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
— Gary Ryan Blair
I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.
— Aspen Baker, Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
A symptom, ” Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. “You’re both fools.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
— Steffi Graf
I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family’s involvement with the armed forces.
— Carolyn Murphy
I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.
— Robert G. Lee
We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.
— Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
Self respect and reality is tough rival when it comes to balance it honestly.
— Ankit Samrat
You can think what you like of Madonna – about her political choices and her PR – but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
— Natalie Dormer
I don’t wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it’s my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you’ve got to respect that it’s not like baseball.
— Bryce Harper
I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.
— Brandon Mull, Dragonwatch
#Writers, #artists , and #poets don’t get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.
— Mozaiah Thompson
Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I do respect clever.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility
They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
— Morrissey
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
— Richard Bach
The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
— William Dean Howells
Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the initial years develops compassion and mutual respect for each other’s skills.
— Mohit Chauhan
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
— Mercy Otis Warren
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
— Stendhal
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something cannot emerge from nothing, ‘ he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable ‘the truth’ can be.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.Tribute to Noah Sealth.
— Válgame, Zori 1ª Parte
I’m a romantic and will only marry for love where there’s respect and compatibility. I’d like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.
— Cherie Lunghi
Power of Position’ always change with respect to time but ‘Power of Person’ never change.So develop yourself in such a way that society respect you because of your Identity not for your ‘Power of Position
— Vikram Singh Slathia
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
— Sofia Vergara
Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
— Jimmy Chamberlin
If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
— A. R. Rahman
Love and respect changes everything.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.
— Carla H. Krueger, The Social Worker
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.
— Prince William
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
— Jil Sander
I respect the Congress’s oversight responsibility.
— Hillary Clinton
Respect people who never afraid of failure and working hard to achieve goal. But I respect more those who support them in this situation.
— Gargi Vyas
I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don’t have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
— Georges St-Pierre
We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.
— Stephen Richards
I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
— Erykah Badu
People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other’s murder.
— Werner Herzog
Respect those who respect you; disrespect those who disrespect you, only then they will respect you.
— John Yang aka Private83
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
— Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
So you’re dating Mr. Freaky Vanderperv, at least you’re not dating a guy with no skills and no interest in you sexually! Treat his kinks with respect and he will be an honest man with you always.
— Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women’s Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
We cannot see God unless we respect people
— Sunday Adelaja
I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
— Nathan Deal
You need time, and I respect that. But make no mistake about it, I intend to make you mine again. I’m fully aware this won’t be easy. I gave up on us once; it won’t happen again.
— Joy Avery, Smoke in the Citi
We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data.
— Francois Hollande
I’m quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
— Richard Dawkins
Never try to change the nature of anyone in your life, you will loose respect and eventually the person.
— Ashar Siddiqui
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
— Pierre de Coubertin
When someone gives you a constructive criticism about your thoughts, this strategy can help you to improve your thinking and writing skills that can result you to have more self respect for enhancing your knowledge.
— Saaif Alam
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
— Marilyn Monroe
People are talking high of Thiruvalluvar. But in practice they do not respect his teachings. They act against him and disregard him.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.
— Christina Milian
With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian’s Reflections on Encountering Death
Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it . . .believers are to test the various spirits and doctrines that abound.Most of all we are to test them against thestandard of the Word of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
— A.J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
— Robert Casey
With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I’ve been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don’t see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.
— Cheryl Hayashi
Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1, 000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
— Darrel Ray, Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
I’ve never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called ‘Make It Last Forever: The Do’s and The Dont’s, ‘ which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me.
— Keith Sweat
Each and every one of us is amazing in our own way. We have five beautiful women who exude talent, and I am blessed and honored to be one of those women. For me, the bottom line is it’s all about respect and love, and I have both for Fifth Harmony.
— Normani Kordei
In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect each others’ opinions, and remove stereotypes to what a girl or boy should aspire.
— Basia Christ
…he considered respect for one’s given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.
— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
— John Bytheway
There is no respect of persons with God.
— Romans
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
— Billie Jean King
The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
— Eric Braeden
Reflective of the deep sense of gratitude and respect Mongolians reserved for wolves, there was a belief that only through wolves could the spirit of a deceased human be set free to go to Heaven.
— Tim Cope
Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Arrogance is shown in one’s respect to the truth.
— Lionel Suggs
The respect you give to others dramatically reflects the respect you give to yourself.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
— John Polkinghorne
Respect is and not given, respect is earned.
— Beta Metani’ Marashi
If you reverend God, you shall respect all souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
— Ira Gershwin
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
— Emma Bunton
Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
— Thomas Cochrane
Don’t ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.
— Alison Levine, On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership
While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.
— Donna Brazile
Meet everyone with utmost respect and heartfelt love. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, POET 2013– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
A brainy person does not abuse copyright instead they respect it and uphold it.
— Maximillian Degenerez
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?
— Shannon L. Alder
I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I’ve been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.
— Jon Pardi
If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!
— J.P. Vaswani
To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don’t follow those orders which make no sense.
— Amit Kalantri
I respect myself and receive joy form all directions.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
There are men – now in power in this country – who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
— John Lindsay
I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.
— Donald Trump
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
— Bryant McGill
Authenticity isn’t just about saying “this is who I am”—it is also about being flexible enough to recognize and appreciate the uniqueness in others—honoring the mutual respect for being authentic and true.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Different is the salesman who shows respect for our intelligence, who tries to get us to express exactly what we ourselves wish, who listens to us as effectively as he talks to us, above all, who is cordial to us even after we have refused to sign
— H.A. Overstreet
If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Money isn’t everythingBut, you can buy fake respect and temporary happiness with money
— Sammy Toora
What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
— Doris Lessing
She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
— Ford Frick
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
— Mario Monti
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.
— Joel Salatin
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
— Malcolm X
Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they’re older. People just don’t realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.
— Cesar Millan
It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
— Brendan Behan
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
— Clint Eastwood
We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.
— Eraldo Banovac
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.
— Hugh Jackman
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
— David Brainerd
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
— André Brink, Before I Forget
Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2).
— Christina Feldman
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
— Julian Assange
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.
— Martin O’Malley
I’m trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.
— Joseph Wapner
If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
I’m of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
— Erica Goros
We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I almost never respect men. They’re like flowers — all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.
— Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband
Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
I respect people who hate me honestly.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.
— L.M. Fields
Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of – and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.
— Sarah Mally, Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
— Wilson Mizner
To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.
— Auliq Ice
Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.
— Avijeet Das
You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they’ve figured out.
— John Green
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
— Julius Erving
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Respect is not delivered it is earned. If you want more respect in the world treat people with tremendous respect.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
— Abbie Hoffman
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
— Abraham Lincoln
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
— James A. Baldwin
Only beards can’t make you count as a man, you need to have respect for women in your heart for that.
— Moosa Rahat
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
— David Duchovny
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
— John Corigliano
Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.
— Max Azria
You have to respect all your competitors.
— Thorsten Heins
Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.
— Baltasar Gracián
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.
— Corey Taylor
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
— Maya Angelou
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