Respect Quotes

Come closer, Kurokuma. It's quite safe.'Horace shuffled closer to the edge...'Quite safe, my foot,' he muttered to himself. 'And what's this Kurokuma you keep calling me?''It's a term of great respect,' Shigeru told him.'Great respect,' Shukin echoed.

~ John Flanagan

It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op” or “post-op” when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either “circumcised” or “uncircumcised.

~ Julia Serano

What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name.'Nothing important,' Horace said. Then he looked at them suspiciously. 'What's this Kurokuma business?'The Senshi looked at him with a completely staight face.'It's a term of great respect,' he said. Several others within earshot nodded confirmation. They too managed to remain straight-faced. It was a skill the Nihon-Jan had perfected.'Great respect,' one of them echoed.

~ John Flanagan

Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth

~ Anne Mccaffrey

He didn't want the respect of people who weren’t worth wiping his nose on—people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Respect toward others can't be imposed.It's a blessing...or learning the hard way.

~ Toba Beta

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

~ Jane Austen

Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.

~ Cm Punk

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

~ Frank O'hara

Boys seek attention, men demand respect.

~ Habeeb Akande

When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you...

~ Assegid Habtewold

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

~ Slavoj Žižek

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

~ Jean Vanier

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

~ Paul Kearney

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

~ Melina Marchetta

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

~ Albert Einstein

I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.

~ Julia Serano

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene. Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

~ Sister Souljah

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains.

~ Joseph M. Marshall Iii

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

~ David Mitchell

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

~ Orson Scott Card

Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it's equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.

~ Laurie Buchanan

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

~ Sherry Thomas

I would take care you speak of her with respect for, of course, I will interpret any disrespect for her as disrespect for me.

~ Margaret Moore

Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

~ Hugo Ball

I would rather wear a suit everyday and be respected than dress half naked and be disrespected.

~ Bianca Frazier

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The angel stares at his blade uncomprehendingly.Another sword drops.Then another.Then a whole bunch, until all the other unsheathed swords fall, thudding on the grass like subjects bowing down to their queen.The angels stare at the swords at their feet in utter shock.Then everyone looks at me. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say they’re looking at my sword.“Whoa.” That’s about the most intelligent thing I can say right now. Did Raffe say something about an archangel sword intimidating other angel swords if she could gain their respect?I swivel my eyes to look at the blade in my hands. Was that you, Pooky Bear?

~ Susan Ee

With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity.

~ Toba Beta

The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness.

~ Criss Jami

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

~ Dean Koontz

Don't fool yourself by look so humblewhereas the thing you want is respect.

~ Toba Beta

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

~ Samuel Johnson

To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.

~ Lorii Myers

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

~ Vera Nazarian

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile, esteem without love is languid and cold.

~ Jonathan Swift