Respect Quotes

Respect is earned, not demanded — and these quotes explain why. This collection covers dignity, mutual regard, self-respect, and the way treating people well tends to come back around, even when it takes a while.

“I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.”

Jenny Eclair

More Respect Quotes

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

Jack Nicklaus

“I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.”

E. O. Wilson

“I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.”

Christiane Amanpour

“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”

Andre Gide

“I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.”

Rashida Jones

“Awe and respect are two different things.”

Oliver Reed

“Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.”

Joseph Butler

“We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.”

Christopher Meloni

“The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.”

Charles Foster Bass

“Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.”

David Attenborough

“I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.”

Roger Goodell

“In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.”

Giacomo Casanova

“If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.”

Harold Pinter

“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.”

Marlene Dietrich

“When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.”

Robert Griffin III

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