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Respect Quotes – Best Quotes About Respect
1 – Respect is how to treat everyone. Richard Branson
2 – Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. Miguel Angel Ruiz
3 – Respect out of fear is no respect. M. K. Soni
4 – Respect is not imposed nor begged. It’s earned. And offered.
5 – I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. Gandhi
6 – You can’t force someone to respect you but you can refused to be disrespected.
7 – Knowledge will give power, but character respect. Bruce Lee
8 – Respect yourself and others will respect you. Confucius
9 – Respect is what you give to others. Honor is what you give to yourself.
10 – I can be hurt only by people I respect. Mary Balog
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11 – Once you take care of people, people respect you. George Weah
12 – People respect us because of two reasons. Either we have power or our behavior is helpful. First one is temporary but second one is permanent.
13 – Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it. R.G. Risch
14 – Never ever compromise on self-respect and do not lose yourself in the process of chasing others.
15 – 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
16 – Respect is earned, not given. Hussein Nishah
17 – A person’s a person, no matter how small. Dr. Seuss
18 – He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb.
19 – Everyone should be respected as an individual but no one idolized. Albert Einstein
20 – No one respects a talent that is concealed. Desiderius Erasmus
Respect Quotes – Best Quotes About Respect
21 – 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
22 – 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
23 – 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
24 – We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct and individual.
We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don’t share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. C. JoyBell C.
25 – Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others. Amy Leigh Mercree
26 – Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27 – Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X
28 – 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. Maya Angelou
29 – Men are respectable only as they respect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
30 – They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. Mahatma Gandhi
Respect Quotes – Best Quotes About Respect
31 – 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
32 – 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
33 – I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche
34 – If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou
35 – When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu
36 – Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein
37 – Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus
38 – Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson
39 – Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. Norman MacDonald
40 – I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. Julius Erving
Respect Quotes – Best Quotes About Respect
41 – I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. Julius Erving
42 – A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness. African proverb
43 – This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. Mitch Albom
44 – Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth.
If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think. Meredith Jordan
45 – Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. Leo Tolstoy
46 – When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title. Criss Jami
47 – 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
48 –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
49 – 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
50 – To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire
Respect Quotes – Best Quotes About Respect
51 – When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. Mark Twain
52 – 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
53 – An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King Jr
54 – 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
55 – 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
56 – Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. Eldridge Cleaver
57 – Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself.
Beyond this, they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. Ezra Taft Benson
58 – 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
59 – We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr
60 – I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. Albert Einstein
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61 – Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them. Albert Schweitzer
62 – 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
63 – When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others. Dalai Lama
64 – If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt
65 – Respect the burden. Napoleon Bonaparte
66 – The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. George Bernard Shaw
67 – Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne
68 – The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man. Major Dick Winters
69 – Blood, sweat, and respect. First two you give, last one you earn. Dwayne Johnson
70 – Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. Roy T. Bennett
Respect Quotes – Best Quotes About Respect
71 – 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
72 – 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
73 – Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention. Roy T. Bennett
74 – Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? Confuscius
75 – 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
76 – Our goal must be decency and respect for every human we encounter. Oprah Winfrey
77 – 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
78 – Love is a combination of friendship, passion and respect. John Glenn
79 – A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham
80 – Respect is for those who deserve not for those who demand it. Paulo Coelho
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81 – People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone. Amit Kalantri
82 – Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate and value you. Roy T. Bennet
83 – One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Bryant H. McGill
84 – 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.
85 – If we are not free, no one will respect us. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
86 – This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. William Lyon Phelps
87 – No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw
88 – Realize that you yourself are imperfect and flawed and you’ll be more forgiving and respectful of others. Maxime Lagacé
89 – I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Jackie Robinson
90 – Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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91 – There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self. Henri Amiel
92 – One of the best response to disrespect toward yourself is indifference. Maxime Lagacé
93 – The more you know and respect yourself, the more impact you will have on people around you. Maxime Lagacé
94 – The wise make the world beautiful by respecting others. Maxime Lagacé
95 – He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them. Mencius
96 – Never take a person’s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you. Frank Barron
97 – Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. Annie Gottlieb
98 – 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
99 – Little people are indifferent. Superior people are caring. Maxime Lagacé
100 – Respecting someone indicates the quality of your personality. Mohammad Sakhi
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