Respect Quotes
1.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.
2.When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
3.When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
4.Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
5.Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
6.Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
7.A person’s a person, no matter how small.
8.Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
9.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.
10.We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
11.Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
12.Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
13.I’m not everybody’s cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I’m a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don’t like it, fair enough. But give me a break.
14.I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.
15.Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
16.There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
17.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.
18.I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
19.Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
20.If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
21.To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
22.Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear
23.I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
24.If we are not free, no one will respect us.
25.I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
26.To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
27.America wants its respect.
28.I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.
29.We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
30.Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
31.Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
32.I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
33.I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
34.As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
35.Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
36.It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
37.Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
38.I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
39.And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
40.Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
41.Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
42.To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
43.That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
44.The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
45.I always respect a woman.
46.It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
47.There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
48.One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
49.Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
50.I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
51.I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
52.But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
53.Never dress down for the poor. They won’t respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
54.Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
55.Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
56.Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
57.I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
58.The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
59.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.
60.Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
