Respect - Quotes & Sayings

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

John Lynch

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Barry Bonds

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

Blake Lively

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

Justin Trudeau

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

Simon Sinek

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

Katy Perry

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

Lil' Kim

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

LeBron James

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

Pink

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

DMX

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Sophia Bush

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

Tupac Shakur

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Nikita Khrushchev

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

Bob Iger

These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.

Divyanka Tripathi

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 submit that 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 law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each and every one of us is amazing in our own way. We have five beautiful women who exude talent, and I am blessed and honored to be one of those women. For me, the bottom line is it's all about respect and love, and I have both for Fifth Harmony.

Normani Kordei

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.

Alexandra Adornetto

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can remember. Every day, my respect for Mariah continues to grow higher. She's a caring, warm and funny person. People have no idea how funny she is! I feel like I've always known she was my forever love.

Nick Cannon

I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.

Colin Kaepernick

It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

Stephanie Sigman

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

Elton John

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.

Hugh Jackman

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

Pele

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

Ben Roethlisberger

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Elizabeth Blackwell

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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.'

John Cena

My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

Kate Middleton

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

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment - and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That's where respect comes from.

Michelle Obama

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Thorstein Veblen

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Tecumseh

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

Maya Angelou

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Harry Styles

I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I'm on a horse, I'm more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect.

Lee Pearson

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

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Richard Dawkins

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Meryl Streep

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

Karen Salmansohn

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

Robert Stack

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Renee Olstead

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln