Top 540 Respect Quotes

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
Robert Stack
We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.
Rege-Jean Page
The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties… the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.
Shirin Ebadi
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
Hugh Jackman
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.
Jonathan Anderson
If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
Dale Murphy
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
Marcia Fudge
If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.
Fiona Apple
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
Tina Fey
I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
Ranbir Kapoor
I’ll fight you, and I’ll have respect at the end. If you win, I have respect; if I win, I expect respect, Ray Mercer, man, I don’t want to mention this guy’s name anymore. He gets no respect from me. He was not professional, and he showed poor sportsmanship.
Kimbo Slice
For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.
Paul Bettany
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
Josiah Royce
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Christian Lous Lange
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
Shailene Woodley
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who’s been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
Felix Dennis
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle
I’ve always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.
Matthew Gray Gubler
I submit that 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 law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
Bob Iger
I got taught respect because if not, somebody’s gonna make you respect them.
Jorge Masvidal
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
Vanna Bonta
Thanks to ‘Eega,’ people respect me as actor. That abundance of respect is what pulls me towards cinema.
Sudeep
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that’s, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he’s a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
Emma Watson
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respe

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it’s like, she didn’t care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
Britney Spears
I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.
Stellan Skarsgard
High heels. I respect people who love them; they’re just not for me!
Sophie Hawley-Weld
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever – stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
Jeffrey Kluger
This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.
Michelle Yeoh
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle
You can be sexy, but respect yourself and make sure you get that respect.
Estelle
I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other’s heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.
Steven Levitan
I have great respect for the LDS church – their commitment to family and taking care of each other is exemplary. I just don’t believe the tenets of the faith that they believe.
Kyrsten Sinema
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.
Erykah Badu
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
Elena Kagan
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
James Cameron
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It’s about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
Jim Leach
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
Thomas Szasz
There’s a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
J. Michael Straczynski
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
Steffi Graf
I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.
Abhay Deol
Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.
Maisie Williams
We cannot stop senseless violence without the rule of law and security forces that represent and respect every segment of society.
Haider al-Abadi
My one thing is respect. I don’t care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you – the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
Charli XCX
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
Alexander Mackenzie
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps
New York gave me hell for that ‘Purple Swag,’ man. They didn’t respect me until ‘Peso.’
ASAP Rocky
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
Caitlyn Jenner
I have a lot of respect for people, and I feel they are far more sensible and responsible than to ape or imitate somebody.
Ajith Kumar
Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.
Martin O’Malley