Top 215 Respectful Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Respectful Quotes from famous people such as Adrian Pasdar, Fantastic Negrito, Bill Cowher, Francisco Costa, Peggy Johnson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There's probably somebody out there who has been dying

There’s probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do ‘Heroes.’ I mean, I love it. I’m totally respectful of the position, but I wasn’t pursuing it.
Adrian Pasdar
Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let’s keep it real and be very respectful about that.
Fantastic Negrito
I see a lot of myself in a young Mike Vrabel. He is very competitive. He is very respectful of the game, but he looks at each opportunity as an opportunity to prove something that people don’t think you can do, and he’ll create that narrative.
Bill Cowher
All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we’re stubborn, but that’s our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.
Francisco Costa
I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you’ll be your best self.
Peggy Johnson
I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.
Mariano Rivera
I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it’s possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.
Elizabeth May
When there’s film rolling through the camera, there’s a heightened awareness of the importance of that moment, from the actors and the crew. It creates a much more old-school respectful atmosphere for the process.
Ryan Fleck
On everything I do I’m always taking someone’s money, whether it’s a movie studio or a record label. Somebody’s paying for it, and I’m always respectful of that. But I’m never going to compromise.
Spike Jonze
I believe that having conversations about difficult things is a part of a process and that it should happen. You don’t avoid it because it’s difficult. And you’re not dividing more by having a respectful conversation.
Margaret Brennan
I don’t ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.
Goose Gossage
Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.
Alan Colmes
Practice, learn the lines, work hard, don’t be too respectful. Sometimes we can get too hung up on the fact that the material of the play is very finely wrought language.
Roger Allam
When you’re playing a real person, there’s a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
David Tennant
Britons are very respectful – if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.
Leroy Sane
I’m very driven by writing. Coming from ‘Saturday Night Live,’ because it’s such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I’m so respectful of good writing.
Molly Shannon
From the first moment you accept to join a club, the best thing you can do and the most respectful thing to do is ask yourself: ‘What is the history behind this club?’
Diego Simeone
I am super respectful.
Sal Vulcano
I’m a very respectful fighter, I don’t get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don’t want to fight a fighter, or you don’t think it’s a good style, or it’s just not time, then say that.
Andre Ward
I don’t post pictures of my grandchildren unless I get permission. I’m really respectful about that. If I feel like anything is invasive of someone’s privacy, I don’t do that, either. Sometimes I have great pictures, but I’m like, ‘Eh, maybe this is not right.’
Tina Knowles
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi
You never stop working, you never stop doing things because there’s someone behind you – in a respectful way – who is giving absolutely everything in every single training session.
Per Mertesacker
Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you’ve got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.
Julie Plec
I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.
Michel Faber
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. I would like to state that I have great respect for the club, its supporters, and the owner, Sheikh Mansour, who has been nothing other than respectful to me.
Carlos Tevez
Let’s work together to keep our country open, tolerant, respectful, and progressive.
Julie Payette
It is not respectful to dance with people you don’t know when invited to someone else’s home.
Sonja Morgan
I’m married to a nurse, and she is really, really ardent that – in screenplays or movies that I’ve worked on, that all the medical aspects be properly presented. I think that filmmakers ought to be respectful of all fields and not just be lazy and put nonsense in movies because most people won’t know the difference.
Scott Derrickson
Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government’s failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.
Russell Pearce
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don’t have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I’m a little more respectful of ants.
Douglas Hofstadter
I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learnt that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.
Anthony Joshua
Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business

Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it; The Rock did it.
Sean Waltman
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
Alan Lightman
Africa doesn’t leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it’s incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
Jill Scott
I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I’m very admiring of what they’ve done.
Daniel Boulud
My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again.
Dan Levy
In Manchester, people don’t recognise me that much and tend to treat me in a more respectful way.
Marouane Fellaini
Scott Coker, I’ve known him such a long time, he’s always been a straight shooter. He’s always been very, very respectful towards me. He understands the business. He understands marketing and how to push the fighters to make them superstars in a household environment.
Tito Ortiz
I have always been proud and happy to wear France’s colours. I have always been respectful of the team. But I need people to prove they really want me to play.
Nicolas Anelka
For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial ‘I eat ethnic food’, to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.
Sangram Singh
When I’m playing as an actor, I don’t want to interfere at all with the director. I’m just an actor. I’m totally respectful.
Jordi Molla
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
Dreama Walker
It’s our responsibility as fathers to educate out boys to be sensitive and respectful towards women and not just curbing our girls’ freedom.
Ravi Kishan
The best compliment is when other parents invite your children to come over, or stay overnight. Afterward, I hear how well-behaved and respectful they were. I think that’s one of the most wonderful compliments you can get as a parent.
Greg Vaughan
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
Rich Brian
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James Black
Robert Mugabe is not representative of who we are, what we stand for, or how we want to be viewed by the rest of world. We are peace-loving people, respectful of foreign representatives, who want the country to be a prosperous, productive. and responsible member of the global community.
Roy Bennett
My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.
Marcus Mariota
I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we’re polite, we’re respectful, but at the end of the day we’re young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can’t enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.
Tinie Tempah
LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
Charles Inglis
People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. ‘The Magazine’ was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers’ time and attention.
Marco Arment