Respect Quotes

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.
– Nikki Haley
Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.
– Sean Paul
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
– Victoria Justice
Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.
– Brian Austin Green
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
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
– Shia LaBeouf
So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
– Tony Campolo
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.
– Kurt Masur
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
– Jeffrey Kluger
Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
– Gina Carano
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
– Elton Gallegly
Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.
– Mike Mills
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
– Alexis Arguello
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
Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.
– Michael Chertoff
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
Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
– Marion Cotillard
Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.
– Robert Griffin III
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
– Norman Cousins
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
– Frank Herbert
Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.
– Linda Tripp
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
– Miguel Angel Ruiz
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
– Jane Austen
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
– Gordon B. Hinckley
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
– Laurence Sterne
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
– Sargent Shriver
Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
– Nick Clooney
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
– Benny Green
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
– Chris Ware
Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
– Mohamed ElBaradei
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
– Bruce Springsteen
Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
– Antonio Banderas
PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
– Werner Herzog
People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.
– Jennifer Capriati
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
– E. O. Wilson
People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.
– Terry Bradshaw
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.
– Stephen Breyer
People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.
– Josh Henderson
People are giving me more respect.
– Christina Ricci
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
– David Duchovny
People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
– Michael Clarke Duncan
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
– Zachary Quinto
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
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
– Joanna Trollope
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
– Josiah Royce
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
– Robert Casey
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.
– Dennis Muren
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
– Mike McCready
One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.
– David Miliband
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
– E. W. Howe
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
Once you take care of people, people respect you.
– George Weah
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
– Lynn Margulis
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
Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.
– NeNe Leakes
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
No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
– Dario Argento
No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.
– John Fogerty
No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.
– Roger Goodell
Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
– David Hasselhoff
New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'
– ASAP Rocky
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
– Gamaliel Bailey
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
– William Cobbett
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
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
My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.
– Nikki Haley
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
– Georges Cuvier
My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
– Jared Leto
My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.
– John Fisher
My government will respect the will of the people.
– Mwai Kibaki
My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
– Jay Weatherill
My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
– Jason Bateman
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.
– Tammy Bruce
My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.
– Ian MacKaye
My father was an inspiration to me I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
– Hayley Mills
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
– Youssou N'Dour
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
– Sam Raimi
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
– Dennis Prager
Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.
– Arne Duncan
Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
– John Linder
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.
– Ellen Barkin
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
– Juan Goytisolo
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
– Sydney Smith
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
– Jack Kerouac
Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.
– Jim Evans
Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
– Jon Fishman
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
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
– George Best
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
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
– Ted Nugent
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
– A. N. Wilson
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
– Sylvester Stallone
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
Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.
– Ken Salazar
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
Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
– Timothy Olyphant
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