Respect Quotes

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
– Erma Bombeck
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
– Bill Bradley
Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.
– David Brown
I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.
– David Bruce
I also think that, as a fellow human being, I should be accorded a level of privacy and respect as anyone else. So, it's a delicate balance and some of the things that are written or speculated, rumours that have circulated, you've gotta just laugh at them and have a sense of humour about them and not take them so seriously.
– Benjamin Bratt
When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.
– Benjamin Bratt
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
– Fernand Braudel
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
– Harry Bridges
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
– Robert Byrne
Respect is love in plain clothes.
– Frankie Byrne
It's like, now you've done it, you stood up with the big boys and you were good onscreen. It gives me a lot more weight walking into a room. They just treat me with a different level of respect. They don't remember Superman so much as they remember that role, which is a different realm.
– Dean Cain
I believe, basically, that Canadians respect the demanding and important work accomplished by their politicians.
– Kim Campbell
We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.
– Vincent Canby
The way a person moves tells you a lot about them. Look at the way I'm holding this coffee mug. If I were to thump it down on the table, I wouldn't be respecting your tape recorder. If I move it gently, it means I am showing some respect. These are the things I bring to my performances.
– Robert Carlyle
One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.
– Josh Charles
The industry makes billions as a result of my existence and I get no respect and I get no airplay. I really get treated badly in the business. I really do. I'm not whining. These are just facts that I have to live with everyday. It's not easy to go to bed every night knowing that.
– Chubby Checker
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
– Eldridge Cleaver
My hope is that one day America will return to our historic standards which were to respect the life of the unborn.
– Tom Coburn
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
– Joseph Conrad
The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together these actions spell out the increasing marginalization of the terrorists, as they have fewer and fewer places to run and hide.
– John Cornyn
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
– Stephen Covey
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
– Davy Crockett
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
– Chilon
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
– Mark A. Clement
My initial interest, just prior to my work on cytokines, was on cell-mediated immunity and delayed hypersensitivity, mostly with respect to the cells that populated these reactions.
– Stanley N. Cohen
My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
– Betty Cuthbert
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
– Salvador Dali
When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
– Joan Didion
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
– Joan Didion
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
– Norman Douglas
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
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
– Dick Durbin
With all due respect for the finger of John the Baptist, the shin of St George most of the holy relics in Christendom pale in importance before the relic of the Holy Blood of Jesus.
– James Deely
People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.
– Brad Delson
Many friends are full and part-time faculty. I have a lot of respect for formal institutions of advanced learning and the many wonderful men and women who inhabit them. I also know blithering idiocy when I see it among the savants.
– Lester Dent
So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.
– Snoop Dogg
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
– Albert Einstein
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.
– Jenna Elfman
You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
– Bob Feller
There are people who in private ask us to respect the confidentiality of their donations, and we do, because we understand the fear they have of being repressed, just as I was when I began in politics. Important businesspeople often lose the vision of the wonderful opportunities this country offers if we achieve a true democracy-they prefer short-term benefits. The ones who ARE changing are women. They have a very different vision.
– Vicente Fox
I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.
– Heinz Fischer
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty, and that this defence prevails, though the world be against the individual resister.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Self-respect knows no considerations.
– Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
– Barry Gibb
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.
– Emma Goldman
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
– Emma Goldman
I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.
– Richard Gough
My energy was focused on trying to find my way out of a deep, dark wood, and getting good help that I trusted, and being involved with the people I was responsible for and responsible to. Beyond that extended family/friends/church base, there was no energy to consider who was putting the ban on me. If somebody made that choice, I totally respect that. But I had no interest in trying to justify anything to anybody.
– Amy Grant
In the days long ago when I was in the seminary, we were told that we would be respected by our people, and we took it for granted that we would be. I learned very quickly in my first assignment that respect was no longer given, save in a superficial way. It had to be earned by the display of professional competence. That is all the more true today.
– Andrew Greeley
The radical feminists include their sisters and their nieces and their mothers and all the women in their lives. They just don't like the way the Church treats them. And this includes lots of parish priests. They are just awfully sloppy in their respect and sensitivity toward women.
– Andrew Greeley
If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one.
– Graham Greene
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
Freedom means to build a democratic system enshrined with the respect for fundamental rights of Man, of the human being, of the individuals.
– Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.
– Herbie Hancock
But I'm talking about responsibility, a sense of responsibility. Developing software to help human beings develop more of a sense of responsibility. Kids need that. Adults need it too. More self worth. More self-respect.
– Herbie Hancock
People put you on a pedestal when you become famous, in their eyes, or if they really respect your work, they might put you on a pedestal, but I didn't get that as a kid.
– Herbie Hancock
There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help.
– Tom Hayden
The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.
– Adolf Hitler
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
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
– Victor Hugo
As a Muslim, I know that my faith reveres all monotheistic religions. It completes God's message to mankind to live together in friendship and dignity, at a time when Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in many parts of the world, present an image which is totally alien to the spirit in which they were meant: the teachings of God in terms of tolerance and mutual respect.
– King Hussein
How can we resolve problems if we do not place ourselves in the position of others with whom we have problems? How can we move ahead if we do not have mutual respect for each other, and stemming from it, trust? How can we move ahead if we do not have a common objective that we are committed to reach? These are questions that are in the minds of many in our part of the world at this time.
– King Hussein
There's so much in the Quran on peace, as there is on submission to one God, the attributes of God, heaven and respect for the other two monotheistic religions. These are teachings we don't much hear about, but they affect me in my political life, supporting my firm belief that I'm doing the right thing. It's along these lines that so much can be taught.
– King Hussein
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
– Jane Haddam
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
By mutual respect politically, we mean that the political system and path of political development chosen by the people of each country should be respected.
– Jintao Hu
I can't write these marvellous sentences like Martin Amis or Salman Rushdie that crackle with vitality. I do get a great writerly kick out of reading writers at that sentence level, but I suppose I only respect novelists who have a powerful overall vision. I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul and other places. As for my colleagues at CNN, I am enormously proud to have worked with you, risking my life in the trenches with you.
– Eason Jordan
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
– Benito Juarez
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
– Abdul Kalam
Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
– James Kent
What I've always said is - and I defended Bill Clinton's position, and I would defend the president's choice with respect to going into the Guard. I've never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to jail, being a conscientious objector, going into the National Guard.
– John F. Kerry
My guiding light was not learning to spin or having my trailer lined with photographs of Mahatma Gandhi, or my yoga classes - that's the mechanics of it... But the true guiding light, my yardstick of decency, intelligence and a profound respect for my fellow men was finally pushed out of my larynx and onto the screen - into a performance that is - it's based on you, it belongs to you, you are my guiding light and that is how I did it.
– Ben Kingsley
I prefer what I remember to what is going on today. I don't like what I see today, the irresponsibility, the lack of moral values, permissiveness, lack of respect for the elderly, irresponsibility toward society. It depresses me.
– Ted Knight
I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
– Tommy Lasorda
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
– Avril Lavigne
I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
– Brandon Lee
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 V. Lindsay
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
Law, itself, is a mediating discipline, not only among the passions and needs of human beings, sometimes viewed severally and sometimes in groups or associations, but with respect to the craftsmanship which is useful, and to the relevance of what is perceived as current knowledge or opinion.
– Edward Levi
All respect comes from persisting to completion.
– Melissa Lima
I hope to bring all Singaporeans together, so that even though we may not all agree on this issue, we understand and respect each other's reasons and concerns, and can close ranks and move ahead.
– Lee Hsien Loong
To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
– Mary McCarthy
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
– H. L. Mencken
So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.
– Brian Molko
If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
– Wes Montgomery
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
– Alexander Mackenzie
Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
– Michael Madsen
As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush (news - web sites) because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.
– Natalie Maines
With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
– Burke Marshall
I know I achieved a lot, and I know I have my little share of respect, but when you talk about playoffs, there is no time to be mad, there is no time to complain, there is no soreness that you can't overcome or pain, sometimes, and I hope I continue to do it. I am going to leave my heart out there for my team.
– Pedro Martinez
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
– Jules Massenet
The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
– Don Mattingly
The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
– Millicent Carey McIntosh
Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.
– William Least Heat Moon
Guys will just go out and do something. Females will talk about it - a lot. I don't care if I break a nail. You have to be aggressive to get the same respect as the guys.
– Mya