Top 540 Respect Quotes

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Abraham Lincoln
You don’t say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?
Joe Pesci
To me, it’s about the Golden Rule, really at the end of the day. Treating people as you want to be treated. I just don’t feel like it’s that hard to do. It’s not that much to ask of someone to treat everyone with the respect they would want to be treated with. No matter what you look like or where you’re from.
Chase Elliott
I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
Allan Hamilton
I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
Charles Lindbergh
I can respect different opinions, because everybody has a story.
Richa Chadha
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We w

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen
I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don’t know how long ‘Urinetown’ will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.
Spencer Kayden
Respect a man, he will do it the more.
James Howell
I’m the type of guy that always respect the older rappers who paved the way for us to get here.
Playboi Carti
I only know a few people who I call friends and a few who’ve given me the respect, like Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Aamir Khan and Mani Ratnam.
Vijay Krishna Acharya
Obviously I do have political views – I’m a believer in the free-market economy; I also believe that without competition and respect for human rights there will be no progress because nobody will feel safe and free.
Pavel Durov
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
James F. Byrnes
I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what’s out there.
Rory Kennedy
With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
Paulo Coelho
We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people – and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
Christopher Meloni
The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy
I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.
Nelson Mandela
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
Fidel Castro
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I’m always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game.
Raul
Being a pastor’s kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad’s sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.
Nick Jonas
I’m not gonna sound like the next person. I could respect your sound, but I could also do my own – you feel me?
Denzel Curry
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
Aretha Franklin
I love our country so much. And we should all love and respect each other because this is the greatest country in the world. I see the love. I see the unity in all walks of life on a daily basis and It makes me so proud to be an American.
Jessie James Decker
The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn’t a business concept, it’s a life concept. It’s who you are at the end of the day.
Greg Brenneman
The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.
Isaac Newton
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
Compassion, loyalty, and respect sum up love for me – it’s a mix that’s very rare to find and even harder to imbibe.
Jennifer Winget
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
Jules Massenet
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
John W. Gardner
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, ‘Oh, he must be very religious’. I respect all religions, but I’m not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.
David Beckham
People used to respect royalty to an insane extent that doesn’t exist nowadays. These people never shouted. They never moved, really. Their effort was minimum. They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.
Sofia Boutella
It’s scary what you see out there. People are in marriages and still doing their own things on the side. They don’t respect their partners enough and don’t hold onto relationships the way it was in the past.
Shamita Shetty
A small country like Israel has compulsory military training. But countries like India, that are so much bigger, have no compulsory military training, so people don’t understand how the military functions. They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it.
Gautam Gambhir
I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of M

I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri because of the respect they have for me but also the things they’ve done for me.
Kurt Warner
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him.
Wil Wheaton
Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that’s church, Allah, or any sort of higher being – they all have a humbleness.
BJ the Chicago Kid
I respect Apple. It’s a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
Jack Ma
We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.
Ruby Bridges
I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
Christopher Hitchens
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
Nancy McKeon
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
Joni Mitchell
A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters – well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality – but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
Charlie Hunnam
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius
Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country – whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to – well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.
Scott Morrison
We must respect the referee every time.
Claudio Ranieri
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
I respect Everest very much.
Anatoli Boukreev
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.
Tiny Tim
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
Ryan Holiday
China does not play by the rules; they do not respect the rules. They develop projects that are not feasible, leaving countries with huge debt that cannot be paid back and use that as financial leverage.
Nayib Bukele
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
Shimon Peres