respect quotes

A complete collection of the best respect quotes – funny, wise, inspirational quotations on being respected and being respectful, by famous people from all over the world.

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”

— Stendhal

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”

— Honore de Balzac

“It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.”

— Moliere

“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”

— Franz Kafka

“I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“Respect the burden. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. ”

— Jim Carrey

“I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

— Maya Angelou

“The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”

— Maya Angelou

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”

— James Madison

“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”

— James Madison

“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.”

— John Stuart Mill

“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

— Michelle Obama

“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

— Michelle Obama

“Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.”

— Michelle Obama

“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”

— Colin Powell

“I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.”

— Mitt Romney

“We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.”

— Mitt Romney

“I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau