“Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.” — Jane Goodall
“My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.” — Nelson Mandela
“I always respect a woman.” — Enrique Iglesias
“Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.” — Benjamin Spock
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” — Marcus Aurelius
“But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.” — Chaka Khan
“It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.” — Alfred Nobel
“Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.” — Claudia Black
“It’s not about winning or losing, but love and respect.” — Max Lucado
“We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another.” -John Lynch
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white.” -Aretha Franklin
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” -Confucius
“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.” -Maya Angelou
“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.” -Alphonsus Liguori
“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” -Stockwell Day
“Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.” -Lakhdar Brahimi
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” -Tecumseh
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”-Jacques Maritain
“Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.” –Horst Koehler
“Humility and respect tell much more about your background than your personality.” – Kate Iroegbu
“To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.” – Hugh Jackman
“You will gain more respect and esteem through listening rather than through talking.” – Clive Harman
“Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” – R.G. Risch
“Respect out of fear is no respect.” – M. K. Soni
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” – Albert Einstein
“If you are not being treated with respect, don’t be a doormat.” – Robert Rain
“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” – Julius Erving
“Respect depends on reciprocity.” – Nyang Proverb
“If you can’t Respect her, you don’t Deserve Her!” – Udayveer Singh
“Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.” – Habeeb Akande
“When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.” – Jean Vanier
“If she does not respect you, she will replace you.” – Habeeb Akande
“Respect toward others can’t be imposed. It’s a blessing or learning the hard way.” – Toba Beta
“The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.” – Ayad Akhtar
“You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect.” – Mary J. Blige
“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” – Amit Kalantri
“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.” – Simone Elkeles
“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” – Steve Hall
“If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.” – Taylor Swift
“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.” – Norman Cousins
“Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?” – Marilyn Monroe
“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.” – Frank Herbert
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Respect is for those who deserve not for those who demand it.” – Paulo Coelho
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” – Clint Eastwood
“This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.” – Mitch Albom
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.” – Cary Grant
“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.” – Malcolm X
“I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.” – Taylor Swift
“Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.” – Pink
“Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.” – Kiana Tom
“If we are not free, no one will respect us.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.” – Benjamin E. Mays
“Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return.” – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” – Jackie Robinson
“Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies, and competition.” – John Cena
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
“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.” – Jasmine Guinness
“There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself.” – James D’arcy
“Take very little notice of those people who choose to treat you poorly. It is how they are defining their story, not yours.” – Lei Wah
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” – John Herschell
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” – Dalai Lama
“Respect should be the first thing you give.” – Anonymous
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.” ― Robert Michaels
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” – Malcolm X
“Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.” – Hussein Nishah
“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.” – John W. Gardner
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” – Albert Camus
“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.” – Philip James Bailey
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Respecting someone indicate the quality of your personality.” – Mohammad Rishad Sakhi
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” ― Laurence Sterne
“Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.” – Orhan Pamuk
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“If we can respect the divine within us, if we can treat it with dignity, then we can respect others around us.” –Vishwas Chavan
“You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.” – Lawrence Goldstone
“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” – Eldridge Cleaver
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryant H. McGill
“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.” – Thomas S. Monson
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” – Bono
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein
“Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.” – Stephen Cosgrove
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.” – Mona Sutphen
“Men are respectable only as they respect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee
“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.” – Herbert H. Lehman
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. - Robert Tew
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. - Thucydides
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. - Michel de Montaigne
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. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. - Orison Swett Marden
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. - Shannon Alder
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect. - George Sand
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. - Marcus Aurelius
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? - Shailene Woodley
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own. - Eric Hoffer
You will never gain anyone’s approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows. - Mandy Hale
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself. - James D’Arcy
Harry Potter’ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. - J.K. Rowling
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect. - Hermann Hesse
Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. - Clint Eastwood
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. - John Steinbeck
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack. - Ayn Rand
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. - Mark Twain
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. - Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others. - Ayad Akthar
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself. - Steve Maraboli
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. - George Bernard Shaw
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. - Thomas Huxley
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. - Nathaniel Branden
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. - Mahatma Gandhi
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. - Ralph W. Sockman
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. - Laurence Sterne
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. - Taylor Swift
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. - Richard Bach
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. - Sofia Vergara
It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character. - Charles Bayard Mitchell
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. - Amy Grant
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom. - Horst Koelher
Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. - D.B. Harrop
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. - E.M. Forster
Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways. - Maisie Williams
It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people’s decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. - Kirk Cameron
Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered. - Stephen Cosgrove
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. - Buddha
A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. - Felix Adler
We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other. - Malala Yousafzai
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. - Stockwell Day Jr.
You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel. - Luigi Pirandello
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. - Jackie Robinson
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. - Jasmine Guinness
Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. - Roy T. Bennett
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. - Bill Bradley
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. - Maya Angelou
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. - John W. Gardner
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. - Bruce Lee
Happiness abounds when there is genuine respect one for another. Wives draw closer to their husbands, and husbands are more appreciative of their wives, and children are happy, as children are meant to be. - Thomas S. Monson
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness. - African Proverb
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill
It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other. - Fred Rogers
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. - Louis Pasteur
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be. - Thomas S. Monson
We must have respect for both plumbers and our philosophers, or neither our pipes or our theories will hold water. - John W. Gardner
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. - Billy Graham
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect. - George Burns
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. - William Lyon Phelps
It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting. - John Henry Newman
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect other people regardless of the level they are at… or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back. - Erik Estrada
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it’s really all about them. - Robbie Coltrane
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. - Aristotle
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. - Steve Hall
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. - Arapaho Proverb
Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but a reflection of yours. - Dave Willis
Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience. - Theodore Roosevelt
It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don’t worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers. - David Joseph Schwartz
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. - Jean Vanier
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. - Philip James Bailey
Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat. - Avijeet Das
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. - Herbet H. Lehmen
Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them. - Marilyn Monroe
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein
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. - Larry Bird
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 Clement
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. - Malcolm X
How people treat you with their karma. How you react is yours. - Wayne Dyer
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. - Mother Teresa
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship. - Mark Cuban
Respect is for those who deserve not for those who demand it. - Paulo Coelho
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. - Charles de Gualle
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive. - Jonathan Ive
I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends. - Raquel Cepeda
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention. - Roy T. Bennett
Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given. - Hussein Nishah
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them. - Mencius
It is not grey hair that makes one respectable but character. - Rana Junaid Mustafa Gohar
Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it. - R.G. Risch
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. - Gamaliel Bailey
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. - Thomas Paine
You don’t tell people who disagree with you they’d be better off somewhere else. And you don’t reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them. - Peggy Noonan
We do not earn respect. It is given as a gift. What we do with it is up to us. - Tod Whitaker
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. - Michael Bassey Johnson
You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect. - Mary J. Blige
This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. - Mitch Albom
‘I was wrong,’ builds more respect than ‘I told you so.’ - Dan Rockwell
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
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire
When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title. - Criss Jami
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own. - A.J.P. Taylor
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them. - Albert Schweitzer
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. - Hunter S. Thompson
My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with. - Mark Pincus
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. - Roy T. Bennett
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. - Julius Erving
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. - Bono
Respect has nothing to do with who is right and who is wrong. It has to do with allowing space for someone else’s opinion. - Jackie Viramontez
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. - E.W. Howe
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. - Orhan Pamuk
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others. - Dalai Lama
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. - Bryant H. McGill
Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect. - Mona Sutphen
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. - Frank Herbert
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success. - Hugh Jackman
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of — for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
I’d rather be respected than loved. - Eli Broad
Respect begins with this attitude: I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. - Gary Chapman
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. - Vince Lombardi
Respect requires empathy, the capacity to anticipate and understand the feelings of others. It requires consideration. - Deborah Norville
Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. - Annie Gottlieb
Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that? - Marilyn Monroe
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. - Eldridge Cleaver
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. - Albert Einstein
Awe and respect are two different things. - Oliver Reed
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? - Confucius
Respect is one of the most important things you can teach a child. Catherine Pulsifer
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human. - John Cogley
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Respect comes in two unchangeable steps: giving it and receiving it.- Edmond Mbiaka
“And when Thorkell came to the village, men were silent until he gave them word to speak. Even the old warriors, men who had killed bears in the high summer on the mountain tops.”
“Neither of the girls had ever heard of a poor working boy with three names. ‘You’re not making it up?’ Cilla asked, almost respectfully. ‘I’ve heard tell of folk with three names, but I never saw one before.’ ”
“For him, rules were about politeness and respect and ensuring the survival of a civilized society.”
“So they respected his name when he got one. And his name was ‘Jock’.”
“just as I was maturing in my own understanding, she, too, was moving closer and closer to that point where she was in the right place at the right time, with the right understanding to accomplish the task that had been assigned to her. In this respect there is no doubt in my mind that she had always been the right person”
“I think we had better start thinking about the poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.’ I think it might embarrass Stuart to hear mice mentioned in such a belittling manner.”
“There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I’ll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye—when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I’ll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save—respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree?”
“People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.”
“As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
“I was always half-eaten away by the respect and happiness when I opened the door for Leah.”
“Always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!”
“After a few words touching (Bartleby’s) qualifications, I engaged him, glad to have among my corps of copyists a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey and the fiery one of Nippers.”
″ One of the most disappointing things that you, as a woman, could ever go through is falling in love with a man that can’t love you and respect you because he hasn’t learned to love and respect himself yet.”
“Love is something else entirely. It is caring. It is arguing with curiosity—It is giving an inch when the other seems certainly wrong—it is teasing, it is empathy, it is respect, it is a moment of quiet smiling admiration each morning.”
“It is precisely because they did love themselves-- because each one’s need to maintain his own respect for himself was more important to him than his popularity with others-- because his desire to win or maintain a reputation for integrity and courage was stronger than his desire to maintain his office.”
“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!”
″‘Seems strange. I thought they’d dislike us even more.’ ‘Maybe it’s hard to respect someone you’re cheating,’ said Marda.”
“This is not obsession. It’s respect. I’m living out her last requests.”
“And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?”
We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward.
“While Horton chased after, with groans, over stones that tattered his toenails and battered his bones, and begged, ‘Please don’t harm all my little folks, who have as much right to live as us bigger folks do!‘”
“Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path.”
So all my opinions—I would not say political, but private opinions—are confined to three feelings: I love my father, I respect Monsieur Morrel and I adore Mercédès.
“Everyone has an idea of heaven, as do most religions, and they should all be respected. The version represented here is only a guess, a wish, in some ways, that my uncle and others like him - people who felt unimportant here on Earth- realize, finally, how much they mattered and how they were loved.”
“Could we just settle down and have some compassion and respect for ourselves? Could we stop trying to escape from being alone with ourselves? What about practicing not jumping and grabbing when we begin to panic? Relaxing with loneliness is a worthy occupation.″
“But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected.”
“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”
“Love is spiritual. It’s about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline. And respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you’ve lost everything.”
“Across the grey hillside above them – grey, for the heather was not yet in bloom – without noise, and without looking at them, and shining as if he were in bright sunlight though the sun had in fact gone in, passed with slow pace the hugest Lion that human eyes have ever seen. In describing the scene Lucy said afterwards, ‘He was the size of an elephant,’ though at another time she only said, ‘The size of a cart-horse.’ But it was not the size that mattered. Nobody dared to ask what it was. They knew it was Aslan.”
“The principle here is that a new generation owes a measure of thanks to every member of the previous generation. Our elders planted fields and fought in wars; they advanced the arts and sciences, and generally made sacrifices on our behalf. So by their efforts, however humble, they have earned a measure of our gratitude and respect.”
A person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.
“We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.”
“LaBoeuf said, ‘There is something in what she says, Cogburn. I think she has done fine myself. She has won her spurs, so to speak. That is just my personal opinion.’ ”
“As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.”
“This is Abraham’s grandson, Jacob. He is our honored guest and has come a very long way to be here. I hope you will treat him accordingly.”
“I realized it wasn’t just my grandfather’s life that Miss Peregrine had saved, but mine, too, and my father’s.”
“I want people to be allowed to make jokes about, and discuss, anything they want. I don’t think people should be ostracized for doing so.”
“The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack. ”
“Bravery is always respected, even in an enemy.”
″‘You, our friend, our intelligence, our invisible protector’, said he, ‘accept this commission; you have merited it more than any of us by your wisdom and your counsels...‘”
“Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now people look down upon me because my clothes are shabby.”
“ ‘In my time,’ said the grandmother, folding her thin veined fingers, ‘children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else. People did right then. Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!’ she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. ‘Wouldn’t that make a picture now?’ ”
″ When he smiled he showed a row of strong white teeth. ‘God never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy’s heart was pure gold,’ he said.”
“Respect is not fear and awe; it denotes, in accordance with the root of the word (respicere = to look at), the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his individuality and uniqueness.”
“I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.”
″‘I’d bow, but I might fall over,’ I say to Queen Elara, and immediately I wish I could call back the words. She’s a Silver, I can’t talk to her that way. She could put me in the stocks, take away my rations, punish me, punish my family. No, I realize in my growing horror. She’s the queen. She could just kill me. She could kill us all.”
“Your job is to bow as low as you can, and don’t look them in the eye.”
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I respect.”
″ When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.”
“Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected.”
“No matter what, you don’t talk back to your parents, teachers, elders.”
“Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly.”
“Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.”