Respect Quotes

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect and remember that ultimately, we're all Americans, we'll be fine.

With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.

With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad.

At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

I happen to respect people who are willing to come under public scrutiny and serve their country.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.