Top 100 Respect Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best respect quotes ever written, picked out of the full respect archive on QuoteForever. You will find Hugh Jackman, Maya Angelou, Rodney Dangerfield and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. among them.

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

2

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

3

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

4

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

5

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

6

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

7

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

8

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

9

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

10

Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

11

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

12

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

13

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

14

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

15

When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other.

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Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

17

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

18

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

19

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

20

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

21

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

22

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

23

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

24

But respect yourself most of all.

25

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.

26

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

27

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

28

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

29

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.

30

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

31

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

32

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

33

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

34

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

35

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

36

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.

37

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

38

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

39

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

40

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.

41

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

42

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

43

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

44

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

45

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

46

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.

47

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

48

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

49

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

50

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

51

My top three personal best-dressed list: Lea Michele. I think she really knows how to dress. Blake Lively is great. And Rihanna. I really respect how bold and out-there she is.

52

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

53

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

54

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

55

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

56

I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'

57

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

58

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

59

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

60

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

61

I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.

62

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

63

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

64

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

65

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

66

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

67

Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.

68

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

69

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

70

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

71

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

72

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

73

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.

74

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

75

I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

76

When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

77

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

78

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

79

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

80

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

81

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

82

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

83

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

84

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

85

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

86

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

87

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

88

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

89

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

90

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

91

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

92

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

93

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

94

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

95

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

96

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

97

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

98

I have respect for beer.

99

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

100

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

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