Respect Quotes

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

~ Richie Norton

Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and it's all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything is fun in the sun! Where's the discernment? Where's the arbitration that separates what I LIKE from what I RESPECT, what I deem WORTHY, what has... listen to me now... SIGNIFICANCE.

~ John Logan

I would never forbid you. I can’t forbid you. It’s not in my power to, and it never should be.

~ Charlotte Stein

While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution.

~ Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

~ Peter Ustinov

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people – then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo.

~ Thomas Munro

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.

~ Joseph Dalton Hooker

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

~ Kevin James Breaux

Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.

~ Steve Corbett

I am committed to contributing to the educational growth of our youth.

~ S. Lemon

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them.

~ Sandranil Biswas

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

~ Stanley Keleman

A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others.

~ Sandranil Biswas

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

~ Alexandra Kinias

We should not take our ‘Humanity’ for granted. We should love and respect things as if they were ourselves.

~ Sandranil Biswas

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.

~ Chen Ning Yang

Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You can always win points, winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

~ John Flanagan

If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day…!

~ James A. Murphy

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Difference is the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth, and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

~ John Hume

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

~ Kwame Anthony Appiah

It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

~ Leah Cypess

Everyone deserves respect and justice no matter what they look like.

~ Lesley Kinzel

You are mostly treated by others, the way you deserve.

~ Krishna Saagar

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

~ John Calvin

The more you give, the more you get.

~ Krishna Sagar

Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve?

~ Saurabh Sharma

My continued respect is only given to those who have proven worthy of it. My respect for another person can be revoked in an instant if warranted and never to be regained again. Tread carefully.

~ Cindy Welch

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

His attention means nothing if you don't have his respect.

~ Stephan Labossiere

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance.

~ Bell Hooks

You are a guest of nature - behave.

~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.

~ J. Cornell Michel

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We live in a multidimensional world. Why would you live a one-dimensional love? If you love someone... feel it, speak it, show it, be it.Do more than tell them… show them. Let them feel your dedicated respect and your unwavering devotion.Ensure that your commitment and passion are known and unquestionable. Show them what they mean to you… what they are to you. And… if you don’t feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner… be kind enough to let them go… so they can find someone who will.

~ Steve Maraboli