Quotes About Respect

I myself have appeared on countless panels alongside people with whom I've disagreed, at times even vehemently - and yet, the thought of closing out those segments by grabbing their notes and ripping them up has never even crossed my mind.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

For artists like me nothing matters more than the audience's respect.

One of the best ways to see how critical being present is to effective leadership is to notice what being absent, distracted, hiding something, and/or agenda-driven does to people's ability to trust, respect, and have confidence in you.

I put on notice that I'm a serious and for sure you need to take me serious in the heavyweight division.

We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

I want to be just like Michael Jordan. Chicago greats get noticed around the city. People have a lot of respect for them. I look up to those guys a lot. I want to be part of that family.

I've only met LeBron casually. He's always been great to me. I think I've been great and cordial to him, but this notion that we have to be friends - we're never gonna be friends. And that's not a negative thing.

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life.

I'm nowhere near Barry Sanders. But that doesn't take anything away from my game.

Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere.

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.