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Quotes About Respect

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.
~ Sarah J. Maas
And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
~ Nan Hayworth
Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.
~ Donald Trump
I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.
~ Dorothy Allison
I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.
~ Drew Carey
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
~ Tori Amos
I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.
~ Emilio Rivera
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
~ Franz Grillparzer
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
~ Nora Roberts, Montana Sky
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
~ Barbara Delinsky, Escape
Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.
~ Paul Kearney
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
~ Sara Sheridan
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
~ Shunryu Suzuki