Respect Quotes

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Robert Wyatt

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Jay Kay

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Steffi Graf

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Hugh Jackman

Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.

Linda Tripp

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Bill Wyman

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

Chaka Khan

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John W. Gardner

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Otto von Bismarck

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

Bruce Springsteen

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

Stella McCartney

I respect music, I do. I love it.

Youssou N'Dour

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Bill Kristol

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Omar Sharif

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

Artur Davis

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg