Top 540 Respect Quotes

I understand the fans, I respect them. I’ll accept the whistling and booing. It’s up to me to transform that all into applause.
Leonardo Bonucci
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
Gore Verbinski
I have such respect for ‘Democracy Now!’
Alice Walker
I’m a very consistent leader, and people won’t find me different day to day. You won’t have to have the sort of conversation that says, ‘How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?’ You won’t find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
Gail Kelly
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
Henry Waxman
I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
Javier Bardem
I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
Patti LaBelle
There is a certain belief that so long as something is published in cyberspace there is no need to respect the laws of contempt or libel. This is mistaken.
Dominic Grieve
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
Fran Kranz
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
Benjamin Harrison
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to

Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other’s national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.
Paul Craig Roberts
The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.
Joseph Bruchac
Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.
Margaret H. Hamilton
I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
Karl Malone
You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.
Dominique Jackson
For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
Lata Mangeshkar
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Herbert Hoover
I went to a foreign land, New York City in 1982 and had no money, no respect in the gym. Everyone thinks you’re full of it. The remit in those days was break his heart, get him out of the gym.
Chris Eubank Sr.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn’t want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
Gil Scott-Heron
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Thomas Cochrane
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
A. B. Yehoshua
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James Baldwin
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Robert Casey
My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
James Woods
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
David Attenborough
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
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Marguerite Gardiner
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.
David Lammy
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
Anthony Trollope
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
Edward Irving
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
If you don’t value and respect yourself, nobody else will.
Nagma
You have to discipline your children, or they won’t respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
Phil Robertson
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison
I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a true humanitarian and champion of Women’s Rights and Civil Rights.
Jill Biden
I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me.
Vijay Deverakonda
Australia – not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn’t want to be regarded as Asian, God forbid) – loves nothing more than to throw its weight around in South-East Asia by playing peacekeeper, carrying out its role as the United States’ regional policeman.
Martin Jacques
There’s no doubt in my mind or anyone else’s mind that people like Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, and Sam Smith are where they are because they’re supremely talented people, and I have a lot of respect for them.
James Arthur
We live in a diverse society – in fact, a diverse world – and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
Stan Lee
You get respect when you give respect. That's how you g

You get respect when you give respect. That’s how you get respect.
Michael Nutter
My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
David Douglas Duncan
I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do.
Katy Perry
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
Alcee Hastings
I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
Zendaya
The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.
Azim Premji
Openness, respect, integrity – these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
Justin Trudeau
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
Narendra Modi
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Herman Melville
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
John Gray
People say, ‘Respect your elders,’ but I always go, ‘Respect your young people because they are our future.’
Booker T
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.
Robert Mugabe
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.
C. S. Lewis
Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success – I don’t have a standard.
Shah Rukh Khan