Respect - Quotes & Sayings

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

George Bancroft

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

Catherine Bell

I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

Nan Hayworth

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

Yayoi Kusama

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

Kinky Friedman

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

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Alice Walker

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

Charles Krauthammer

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

If it wasn't for women, I wouldn't be here. I'm a mamma's boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.

Roman Reigns

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Thomas Szasz

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

Caitlyn Jenner

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Nathaniel Branden

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

Talcott Parsons

I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.

Mo Farah

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

Letitia Baldrige

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Logic

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

No, I will never do another Rainbow album. I'll never ever do that again. I want no part in doing it; I want no part in doing anything with Ritchie at all. I respect him. He's a genius. He was a great part of my life, but I don't need to go through that hell.

Ronnie James Dio

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Daniel Radcliffe

There's no doubt in my mind or anyone else's mind that people like Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, and Sam Smith are where they are because they're supremely talented people, and I have a lot of respect for them.

James Arthur

The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.

Susan L. Taylor

Awe and respect are two different things.

Oliver Reed

Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.

Richard Quest

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

Hussein of Jordan

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

Giorgio Napolitano

I feel all the religions should be able to co-exist if the various factions would be willing to respect and learn from each other's faiths.

Susan Carroll

I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.

Harrison Ford

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Julius Erving

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.

John Boehner

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Estelle Parsons

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Jackie Chan

Women absolutely deserve respect.

Aretha Franklin

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

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

Abraham Lincoln

We believe in equal respect for all faiths.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Albert Camus

Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.

Mother Angelica

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.

Frank Sinatra

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

James Madison

I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they're mocked, who hurt when they're discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.

Sarah McBride

We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.

Eva Moskowitz

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Maya Angelou

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Fidel Castro

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Maya Angelou

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Richard Bach

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.

Donald Trump