1. This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. A person's a person, no matter how small. - Dr. Seuss
3. I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. - Clint Eastwood
5. There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. - Henri Frederic Amiel
6. I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. - Julius Erving
7. When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. - Mark Twain
8. If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. - Abraham Lincoln
9. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. - Albert Einstein
10. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. - Albert Einstein
11. Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. - Friedrich Nietzsche 12. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect
you. - Lao Tzu
13. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. - Marilyn Monroe
14. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. - Voltaire
15. Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X
17. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. - Albert Camus
18. I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. - Jackie Robinson
19. If we are not free, no one will respect us. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
20. I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. - Margaret Mead
21. We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. - Taylor Swift
22. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. - Salvador Dali
23. We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other. - Malala Yousafzai
24. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
25. I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break. - Elton John
26. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. - Tecumseh
27. America wants its respect. - Tupac Shakur
28. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. - Tupac Shakur
29. Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. - Baltasar Gracian
30. I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. - Erykah Badu
31. It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan
32. There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire
33. To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. - Bono
34. Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. - Laurence Sterne
35. Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. - Imelda Marcos
36. One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. - Bryant H. McGill
37. Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. - Thomas S. Monson
38. To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. - Joan Didion
39. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. - J. D. Salinger
40. I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. - Eli Whitney
41. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. - John Updike
42. I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. - Edward Gibbon
43. That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker
44. Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
45. As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. - Vera Wang
46. The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. - William Lyon Phelps
47. Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. - Barry Bonds
48. I always respect a woman. - Enrique Iglesias
49. But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other. - Chaka Khan
50. Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. - Philip James Bailey
51. I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. - Leon Kass
52. Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. - Alphonsus Liguori
53. And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected. - Chris Christie
54. The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them. - Robbie Coltrane
55. As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. - Stockwell Day
56. Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. - Robert Casey
57. Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. - Lakhdar Brahimi
58. It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it. - Estelle Parsons
59. People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say. - Jennifer Capriati
60. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill
61. We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. - Barack Obama
62. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. - Paulo Coelho
63. I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons. - Taylor Swift
64. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. - Richard Bach
65. Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. - Anton Chekhov
66. Women absolutely deserve respect. - Aretha Franklin
67. We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do. - Sylvia Earle
68. A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope. - Harvey Milk
69. If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
70. We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. - Mitt Romney
71. As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them. - Hugh Jackman
72. To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success. - Hugh Jackman
73. What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing. - Hugh Jackman
74. I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you. - Dana White
75. People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, he must be very religious'. I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. - David Beckham
76. I respect Muhammad Ali... he was the greatest, he was the best. - Andy Ruiz Jr.
77. The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you. - Sonny Bill Williams
78. All I want is respect. - Sonny Bill Williams
79. Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. - Pierre de Coubertin
80. The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. - Michelle Bachelet
81. No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. - Benjamin Harrison
82. Tolerance has to be shown by those who come to this country for a new way of life. If you are not prepared to become Australian and give this country your undivided loyalty, obey our laws, respect our culture and way of life, then I suggest you go back where you came from. - Pauline Hanson
83. Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness. - Betsy DeVos
84. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. - Ira Gershwin
85. I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine. - Anthony Rizzo
86. Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. - Mark Haddon
87. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? - Confucius
88. The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. - Winston Churchill
89. We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. - Winston Churchill
90. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. - Henry David Thoreau
91. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. - Henry David Thoreau
92. We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. - Benjamin Franklin
93. I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. - Abraham Lincoln
94. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. - Albert Einstein
95. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. - Maya Angelou
96. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. - Maya Angelou
97. Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses. - Maya Angelou
98. I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. - Maya Angelou
99. I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. - Maya Angelou
100. I submit that 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 law. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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