Respect Quotes

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. (Laozi)
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. View quote
Rita Rudner
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. View quote
Anton Chekhov
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. View quote
Mark Twain
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
I respect a woman too much to marry her. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. View quote
Jane Addams
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. (Maya Angelou)
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. View quote
Laurence Sterne
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. View quote
Wilson Mizner
Every day, in every respect, I'm getting better and better. View quote
Émile Coué
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. View quote
Clint Eastwood
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. View quote
Sydney Smith
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. View quote
Winston Churchill
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
I hate victims who respect their executioners. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? View quote
Confucius
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition. View quote
Jean Piaget
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