Respect Quotes

If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.

~ K.d. Harp

Horst, you are a good man. You have always been so, and your soul is an untrammelled thing indeed.’ Horst winced and interrupted. ‘Ah. Well. Maybe not. There was that business with a lacrosse team…’ Now it was Cabal’s turn to wince. ‘Did anyone suffer?’ ‘Oh, no. Nothing like that.’ ‘Was everyone happy?’ ‘I flatter myself a little to think, yes. Everyone was very nice afterwards, anyway.’ ‘Then shut up. In a world as grimy and sin-ridden as ours, you’re a paragon precisely because your intentions are always good.’ ‘Johannes, I killed a man.’ ‘Pffft.

~ Jonathan L. Howard

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn’t matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.

~ Conn Iggulden

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.

~ Steven Magee

There’s no respect for older people at all today, and that’s saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there’s no calling people ‘Mr’ or ‘Mrs’ now, they just call you, and it’s all ‘fuck off’ and the likes of.

~ Stephen Richards

The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the ‘rank’ is not absolute. 'True respect’ is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.

~ Rajat Mishra

The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Women are women: the most beautiful creatures, I love and respect. But hoes and tricks, gets slapped with dicks and that's with no regret.

~ 2Shaddy

If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don't be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!!

~ Assegid Habtewold

Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.

~ Karen Witemeyer

It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.

~ Bohdi Sanders

It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.

~ Kare Anderson

Love Yourself and Care Others,People Will Respect You Automatically

~ Chiranjit Paul

I didn’t know if I was straight or gay. But I did know I loved Michael. And it wasn’t just for all the nice things he’d done for me—it was because of who he was, the kind of man he was, the way he treated me… with respect.

~ Robert P. Rowe

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a woman who is better than I am, a woman who will compel me to bow my head in admiration.

~ Amish Tripathi

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

~ Marquis De Sade

People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

~ Lloyd Alexander

From the moment I could even understand what “respect” was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option.

~ Carlos Wallace

Everything about a person may not be perfect, but there are somethings in every person that deserve our respect.

~ Debasish Mridha

Prejudice doesn't allow one to accept another at a higher level. However their values or views might be respected.

~ Rohan B Rebello

One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A real pastor will always show respect for people.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

...success is when those who know you best respect you most.

~ Mark Batterson

Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him.

~ Santosh Thankachan

I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character.

~ Jacqueline Winspear

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential, productivity becomes obsolete.

~ Marston James

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

~ Marty Rubin

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraordinarily attractive; vice itself breathes comeliness in them; but if it were to disappear, then a woman would have to be twenty times more intelligent than a man in order to inspire, if not love, at least respect.

~ Nikolai Gogol

The same way he treats animals and other vulnerable individuals is the same way he’ll relate to your feminine side.

~ Nityananda Das

Oh, no, no, you've got that all wrong. You're not required to respect elders. After all, most people are idiots, regardless of age. In tribal cultures, we just make sure that elders remain an active part of the culture, even if they're idiots. Especially if they're idiots. You can't just abandon your old people, even if they have nothing intelligent to say. Even if they're crazy.

~ Sherman Alexie

He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them on the glass-littered asphalt, sometimes causing a fumble and always inciting cheers from onlookers up and down the street––especially when he punctuated the hit with the words Patent that!...This permissible violence was unique in that it elicited respect from the victim rather than calls for retribution.

~ Jeff Hobbs

He said that he was sorry but Robert Bey had called and told him i was no longer in the party. I was burnt. I got the Bronx Ministry to put him on the phone and proceeded to call him the unprincipled, arrogant idiot he was... i hate arrogance whether it's white or purple or Black. Some people let power get to their heads... the only great people i have met have been modest and humble. You can't claim that you love people when you don't respect them, and you can't call for political unity unless you practice it in your relationships.

~ Assata Shakur

Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.

~ Victor Hugo

Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world.

~ Morley Callaghan

I suppose.” Mousefur sniffed. “No doubt it’ll be up to me to teach them manners. Kits nowadays don’t know how to show any respect.”Jayfeather’s whiskers twitched with amusement.“Don’t you believe it,” Purdy whispered. “She was teaching Lilykit and Seedkit how to reach under the wall of the warriors’ den and catch stray tails yesterday.

~ Erin Hunter

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

~ David Anthony Durham

You don’t have to like a man to respect him.

~ Janny Wurts

Paradise Is The ABSOLUTE Self~Respect.

~ Alexia Penteleόn De Arcturi