Great Quotes

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

~ Steve Jobs

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

~ Bono

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

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

~ Joan Didion

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

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 Dalí

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

~ Vera Wang

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

~ Orson Welles

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

~ Christopher Wren

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

~ John Polkinghorne

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

~ Yousef Munayyer

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

~ Pancho Gonzales

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

~ David Axelrod

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

~ Hugh Jackman

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

~ Amy Jo Martin

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

~ Lee Brice

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

~ James Nachtwey

Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.

~ Lisa Murkowski

My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

~ James D. Watson

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

~ Lyman Trumbull

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

~ Jenna Dewan

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.

~ Hope Solo

I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

~ Patti Smith

I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.

~ Jason Aldean

It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!

~ David Beckham

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

~ Charlie Haden

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

~ Carolyn Murphy

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

~ Gael Garcia Bernal

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

~ Nas

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

~ Richard Attias

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

~ Colin Kaepernick

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

~ Vicente Fox

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

~ Donald Trump

I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.

~ Donald Trump

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.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

~ Jack Ma

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

~ Jose Andres

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.

~ John Mcenroe