Respect Quotes



     “Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it.” 
- R. G. Risch


      “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” 
- Confucius

       “Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.“
-Chinese Proverb

       “Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey

       “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” 
- Leo Tolstoy

      “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” 
- Albert Einstein

      “Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein


      “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

      “He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.”
- Cicero

      “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” 
- Winston Churchill

      “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” 
- Laurence Sterne

      “Respect starts with yourself.“
- Proverb


      “The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”
- George Bernard Shaw

      “Respect a man, he will do the more.”
- James Howell

      “There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel


       “Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


      “To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire


       “Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.”
- Hussein Nishah

      “The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”
- William Hazlitt


      “If we are not free, no one will respect us.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


      “Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh


       “The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps

      “It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
Estelle Parsons


      “Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Robert Casey

      “I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
Eli Whitney

       “I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
Leon Kass

      “People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.
Jennifer Capriati

     “When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama


       “Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne

      “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill


       “Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Marilyn Monroe

      “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou


       “It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau


       “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

        “Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.” 
- Simone Elkeles

       “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.” 
- Mahatma Gandhi

       “Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.” 
- Marilyn Monroe


      “We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Winston Churchill

      “Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
-Miguel Angel Ruiz