Respect Quotes

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
– Shawn Johnson
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
– Luther Campbell
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
– Jack Nicklaus
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
– Richard Howard
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
– Benazir Bhutto
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
– Sachin Tendulkar
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
– Norman Borlaug
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
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
– Queen Rania of Jordan
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
– Omar Bongo
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
– Danica McKellar
Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.
– Eliot Spitzer
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
– Barry Bonds
Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.
– Elisabeth Shue
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
– Gil Scott-Heron
Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.
– Lena Horne
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
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
– Ethel Merman
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
– Nikita Khrushchev
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
– Abdul Kalam
Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.
– DMX
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
– Georg Simmel
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
– Eric Stoltz
Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.
– Ashley Tisdale
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
– Albert Schweitzer
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
– Horace Walpole
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
– Omar Bongo
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
– Chaka Khan
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
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
– Robert Dale Owen
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
– Bob McDonnell
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.
– Queen Rania of Jordan
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
– James Broughton
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
– Julie Burchill
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
– Francois Hollande
Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge I can't think about filling them.
– Randy West
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
– Lakhdar Brahimi
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
– James Wolcott
Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.
– Franz Beckenbauer
Awe and respect are two different things.
– Oliver Reed
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
– Francis Wright
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
– Wietse Venema
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
– Jim Henson
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
– Herman Melville
As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
– Jon Porter
As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.
– Darren Flutie
As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
– Carrie-Anne Moss
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.
– John Legend
As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
– Dave Reichert
As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.
– Joel Robuchon
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
– Jose Mourinho
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
Arabs respect only the language of force.
– Moshe Sharett
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
– Bill Nighy
Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
– Ismail Haniyeh
Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.
– Robert B. Laughlin
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
– James Payn
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
– Katie Couric
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
– Agnes Smedley
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
– Amos Oz
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
– Talcott Parsons
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
– Bill O'Reilly
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
– Bainbridge Colby
America wants its respect.
– Tupac Shakur
All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
– Kate Mara
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
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
– Walter Annenberg
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.
– Al Pacino
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
– Mike Rogers
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
– Taryn Manning
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
– John Woolman
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
– William Lyon Phelps
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
– Joseph Conrad
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
A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
– Charlie Hunnam
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
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
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
– Robert Stack
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
– Francois Fenelon
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
'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
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
– J. K. Rowling
I have faith in our destinies; a country which is defending itself conquers the respect of all; such a country does not perish!
– King Albert II
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight.
– Bob Anderson
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
– Antonin Artaud
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
– Beatrice Arthur
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
– Jane Austen
If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.
– James Randolph Adams
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
– James Randolph Adams
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
– John Akers
Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.
– Judith Anderson
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
– Dave Barry
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
– Georges Bernanos