Top 540 Respect Quotes

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
Fred Hampton
I will respect anyone who thinks differently, but I know what I have in my heart and only God can judge me. If everybody took care of their own lives only we would have less prejudice in this world.
Jessica Andrade
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff – and it’s out of respect.
David Hasselhoff
I do everything in my power to promote positivity however and whenever I can; and, constructively and softly, try to encourage tweens and teens that if they want to be part of a dialogue on my social platforms, there is an expectation that they do so with poise and respect.
Ryan McCartan
I know what I’m talking about, so that when I say ‘do something’ I have the respect of the people doing it.
Maurizio Gucci
I have nothing but respect for John Cena and his work r

I have nothing but respect for John Cena and his work rate. He’s one of the hardest-working wrestlers there ever was. He’s been a great champion, an inspiring role model. It’s not easy being John Cena and carrying all the weight of the company on your back all the time.
Bret Hart
While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who’s out there just for the experience.
Craig Kelly
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
Robert B. Parker
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don’t give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.
Antonio Guterres
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant
With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
I was brought up to respect my father and not to love him.
Marco Pierre White
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir’s proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
Abu Bakar Bashir
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.
Jon Hamm
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
Hayden Christensen
If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.
Mr. T
I’ll be having lunch with my mum and she’ll complain about the paparazzi outside. I tell her that she could have worn a beanie, but of course she never does. She loves it – it’s how she chooses to connect with people. That’s fine, I can respect that. But I’m the opposite. I always have been.
Aimee Osbourne
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey
People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.
David Lammy
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Don Miguel Ruiz
China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
Lata Mangeshkar
I just respect people and mind my business. I don’t got time to worry about what the next man’s pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.
E-40
I’m not a big hip-hop fan, but I respect all kinds of music and some of them are really cool.
Till Lindemann
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.
Jay-Z
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.
Russell M. Nelson
It’s important that we treat our bodies with respect because it’s what we have to make do with as long as we live.
Siddharth Shukla
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they’re just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.
Rush Limbaugh
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself.
James D’arcy
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
Paul Watson
I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.
John Baldacci
I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don’t respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
Roone Arledge
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect on

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.
Nikita Khrushchev
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
Sophia Bush
A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It’s just the nature of the game. It doesn’t bother me.
Draymond Green
I respect and believe in all religions.
Bappi Lahiri
I’m just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that’s why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
Taylor Hawkins
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
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
Chaka Khan
When you’re successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you’re down and out, you’re all alone. That’s why it’s important to be a good person. Because whether you’re a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.
Suresh Raina
I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I’m on a horse, I’m more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect.
Lee Pearson
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
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God… Islam is a religion of peace. You don’t attack. You explain.
Hakeem Olajuwon
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett
I have great respect for people’s right to believe what they want to believe. And I don’t think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.
Colin Kaepernick
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
Harry Bridges
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
George Best
I believe that ‘Food is a giver.’ It gives you nutrition, health, and at times can give you recognition, like it did in my case, and you got to treat it with that kind of respect.
Ranveer Brar
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
We will respect all our opponents, as we always do.
Sergio Ramos
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We – what we need is a dialogue among civilizations. And we need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
Manmohan Singh
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
John C. Maxwell
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
I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.
Ada Hegerberg
I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.
Jack Ma