Respect Quotes

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Sir John Herschel

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Ambrose Bierce

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Sylvester Stallone

I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

Ken Hensley

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

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Stephen Fry

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

Roone Arledge

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Jeff Goodell

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Roland Joffe

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

Francois Hollande

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Julio Iglesias

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Donnie Wahlberg

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

Dale Murphy

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Simone Weil

I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

Patti LaBelle

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

Matt Stone

You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.

Luke Scott

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Miguel Jontel Pimentel