Respect - Quotes & Sayings
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
Bill MurrayMy company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Robert KiyosakiGolf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack NicklausPeace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert HooverWhat the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
Yoko OnoI respect Lady Gaga very much.
Yoko OnoCertainly we have made mistakes, but you try and learn from your mistakes. And the most important thing is always to move forward and, I think, empower people to do their best, and to lead. I think people respect that and work better under those circumstances.
Anna WintourTo be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
StendhalWell, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
Norman SchwarzkopfAbove 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.
Pope Benedict XVIRespect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Gordon B. HinckleyI respect women to the utmost.
Magic JohnsonI'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
Robert De NiroWhen I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
Michael MooreI always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.
Derek JeterDemocracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Penn JilletteThe beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
Stella McCartneyIf you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
Tina FeyI have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
Dwayne JohnsonWe are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
John UpdikeIf 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. GardnerThe quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLibertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
P. J. O'RourkeIf there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis DiderotI tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.
Chrissy TeigenAs the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
Vera WangI've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
Mike HuckabeeBeing raised by a Catholic father, a Protestant mother, and marrying the Muslim father of my three children, I encourage people to respect and at least try to understand different religions.
Yolanda HadidWe emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.
David SuzukiI grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan GoslingAs 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 LegendI respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de GaulleI can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect.
Kali UchisWhen I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
Loretta LynnI respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
Camille PagliaYou have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
Billy CrystalA gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.
Harvey MilkPlus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
Bruce SpringsteenI was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra CisnerosWhen people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
Salman RushdieI 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 FedererThe people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.
Corey TaylorYou know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.
Marina AbramovicIn general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
Axl RoseI just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.
Scott CaanMutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
Irina ShaykI love our country so much. And we should all love and respect each other because this is the greatest country in the world. I see the love. I see the unity in all walks of life on a daily basis and It makes me so proud to be an American.
Jessie James DeckerOnce I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.
August WilsonI shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.
Toussaint Louverture