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