Respect Quotes

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me."

"America wants its respect."

"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them."

"Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals."

"And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them."

"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."

"Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over."

"Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'."

"Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second."

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

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

"Forget the empty platitudes; your star employee is not a 'godsend.' They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect."

"General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me."

"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."

"How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect."

"I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings."

"I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people."

"I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect."

"I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations."

"I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief."

"I deserve respect for the things I did not do."

"I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time."

"I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal."

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead."

"I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit."

"I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding."

"I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."

"I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options."

"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

"I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced."

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."

"I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow."

"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."

"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."

"I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home."

"I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters."

"I respect a woman too much to marry her."

"I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important."

"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."

"I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them."

"I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility."

"I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways."

"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."

"I think if you show respect on the track to each other, and you do clean overtaking moves, then they get respect for you."

"I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful."