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 love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.”
“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.”
“I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.”
“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
“To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.”
“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
“It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.”
“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”
“I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.”
“I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.”
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
“He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.”
“I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.”
“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.”
“I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.”