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Quotes About Respect

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.
~ Mark Twain
I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
~ Kirk Douglas
When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye
~ Femi Kuti
I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).
~ Barry Bonds
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
~ Sophocles
I admire my father greatly.
~ Kojo Annan
My father is an amazing man.
~ Sherman Alexie
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
~ Annette Funicello
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
~ Youssou N'Dour
My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.
~ Nonito Donaire
My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
~ Ziggy Marley
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.
~ William Maxwell
My father was a beautiful man.
~ Shania Twain
A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'
~ Frank Abagnale
My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
~ Iman
If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.
~ Marco Pierre White
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
~ William Gurnall
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
~ Abu Bakr
Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.
~ Rashi
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
~ Albert Camus
Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
~ Michael D. Higgins
Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.
~ Pope Clement I
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.
~ Morihei Ueshiba