Respect Quotes

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
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
– Tina Weymouth
I have respect for beer.
– Russell Crowe
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
– Bill Walton
I have nothing but respect for HBO.
– James Gandolfini
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
– Leon Kass
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.
– Marc Jacobs
I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
– Mos Def
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
– Will Oldham
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
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
– Karl Malone
I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
– Elton Gallegly
I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.
– Carolyn Murphy
I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.
– Bill Mumy
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
– Darrell Royal
I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.
– John Dingell
I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.
– David Talbot
I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
– Luther Allison
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
– Eli Whitney
I have a wonderful respect for old people.
– Craig Kilborn
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
– Walter Isaacson
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 have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
– Margaret Mead
I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.
– Giuliana Rancic
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
– Terri Windling
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
– Major Owens
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
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
– Betsey Johnson
I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.
– Katie Price
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
– Ryne Sandberg
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
– Eddie Redmayne
I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
– John Philip Sousa
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
– Sofia Vergara
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
I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.
– David O. Russell
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
– Anne Lamott
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
– Rodney Dangerfield
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
– Julius Erving
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
– Robert Wyatt
I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.
– Busta Rhymes
I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I fear God and respect God and love God.
– Brett Ratner
I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
– Lee Scott
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 dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
– Wynton Marsalis
I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
– Ricky Schroder
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
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
– Dave Matthews
I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
– Wayne Rooney
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.
– Ken Salazar
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
– Eva Longoria
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
– Sherman Alexie
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
– R. Lee Ermey
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
– Roone Arledge
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 don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
– Christopher Hitchens
I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
– Ed Miliband
I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.
– Tim Pawlenty
I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.
– Todd Barry
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
– J. K. Rowling
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
– Haruki Murakami
I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.
– Sanaa Lathan
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 did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
– Little Milton
I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.
– Trey Parker and Matt Stone
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
– Miguel Jontel Pimentel
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
– Charles Stanley
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
– Gabriela Sabatini
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
– Roger Nash Baldwin
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
– Jackie Mason
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.
– Mike Epps
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
– Ahmed Chalabi
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
– Paul Kane
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
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
– John Sherman Cooper
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.
– Mikhail Bakunin
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
– Francois Hollande
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
I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.
– Justin Townes Earle
I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.
– Seal
I always respect a woman.
– Enrique Iglesias
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.
– Prince William
I always got great respect as a bass player.
– Bill Wyman
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
– Henry James
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
– Jenny Eclair
I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.
– Ken Hensley
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
– Randy Harrison
How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.
– Alice James
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?
– Henrique Capriles Radonski
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
– Mary Astell
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
– Chris Lowe
Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.
– Jami Gertz
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
– Jay-Z
Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.
– Suze Orman
He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
– Mark Wahlberg
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
– Thomas Szasz
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