Respect Quotes

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

"Self-love, self-respect, self-worth. There is a reason they all start with self. You cannot find them in anyone else."

"Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent."

"A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal."

"I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well."

"I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations."

"I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards."

"I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors."

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."

"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King."

"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."

"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."

"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."

"The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family."

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education."

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."

"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do."

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

"I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different."

"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others."

"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."

"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."

"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."

"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."

"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"

"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."

"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."

"If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people."

"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."