Respect Quotes

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

Norman Mailer

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

Sandra Cisneros

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

Danica McKellar

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

Mary J. Blige

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Luther Campbell

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Jack Nicklaus

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Ravi Shankar

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Walter Hagen

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Ron Wood

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Joanna Trollope

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Sydney Smith

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

Mika Brzezinski

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Louis Pasteur

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

Henrique Capriles Radonski

We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

Lena Horne