RESPECT QUOTES

• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• I think, Valuing others' TIME is the greatest example of respecting them.
  ~ Ronald Reyes Madrid ~
• Respect is earned the moment you respect others the way you want to be respected, but there are some whom you respect but looks down on you.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• Favouritism & Nepotism are the causes of being disloyal & disrespect.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• Beating your wife before your children makes you a monster, and as time goes on their fear and respect for you will turn to hatred.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• What people respect is one thing, what people envy is the other. What people respect they do not always want to do, be or have. If, then, you want to be respected, and respect yourself, you sometimes need to do more than you want to.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
  ~ Charles Lamb ~
• There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• 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 ~
• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Since when was genius found respectable?
  ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
• Never forget to respect yourself for being yourself
  ~ Anonymous ~
• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• If you want to gain more respect, try to differentiate the difference between a boss and a leader.
  ~ Ronald Reyes Madrid ~
• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
  ~ Roger Federer ~
• It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
  ~ Kevin Mitnick ~
• I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
  ~ Curt Schilling ~
• Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
  ~ Stephen Gardiner ~
• I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
  ~ Otto Von Bismarck ~
• There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• We need to respect choices that women make.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• 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 was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.
  ~ Carrie Underwood ~
• I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
  ~ Chris Brown ~
• My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.
  ~ Chris Brown ~
• If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
  ~ Billie Jean King ~
• I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
  ~ Joseph Ratzinger ~
• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
  ~ Joseph Ratzinger ~
• Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
  ~ Joseph Ratzinger ~
• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
  ~ Joseph Ratzinger ~
• Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
  ~ Joseph Ratzinger ~
• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
  ~ Joseph Ratzinger ~
• With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~
• He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• 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 ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
  ~ Jessica Savitch ~
• I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
  ~ Henry James ~
• 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 ~
• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• 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 ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• 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 ~
• Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
  ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• 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 ~
• The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
  ~ Ray Comfort ~
• I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.
  ~ Roger Goodell ~
• 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 ~
• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• Self respect is more important. If you don't respect yourself, you can't respect others and neither can you love others.
  ~ Comfort Boluwatife Opakunbi ~
• The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
  ~ Arthur Ashe ~
• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
  ~ Arthur Ashe ~
• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
  ~ Tim Allen ~
• I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
  ~ Lauryn Hill ~
• I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
  ~ Lauryn Hill ~