Respect Quotes

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
– Francois Hollande
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
– Shia LaBeouf
I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?
– Nick Lachey
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
– Emma Bunton
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
– Sophia Bush
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
– Shailene Woodley
I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.
– Gennifer Flowers
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
– Mark Ruffalo
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
– Paula Danziger
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
– Carole King
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
– Dave Eggers
I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.
– Joaquin Phoenix
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
– Colin Powell
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
– Camille Paglia
I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
– Jessica Simpson
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
– Ted Allen
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
– Harold Ramis
I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
– Alicia Keys
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
– Cat Stevens
I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.
– Victoria Justice
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
– Mikhail Bakunin
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
– Hunter Parrish
I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.
– Jessica Simpson
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
– Marilyn Monroe
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.
– Michelle Trachtenberg
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
– Andrew Denton
I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
– Ricky Schroder
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
– Theodore Bikel
I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.
– Lindsay Lohan
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
– Dominic Monaghan
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
– Jenny Agutter
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
– Steve Jobs
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
– Ryan Gosling
I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
– Rick Perry
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
– Madeleine Stowe
I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.
– Mary J. Blige
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
– Chris Ware
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
– Stefanie Powers
I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
– Lauryn Hill
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
– Javier Bardem
I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
– Venus Williams
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
– Wilfrid Laurier
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
– Tony Hillerman
I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.
– Michael Ian Black
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
– George Murray
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
– Yousef Munayyer
Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
– Thomas Keller
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
– Anna Lindh
Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
– Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
– Vince Lombardi
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
– Wislawa Szymborska
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
– Kurt Cobain
Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.
– Janez Drnovsek
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
– Gary Ryan Blair
Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.
– Heather O'Reilly
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
– Max Nordau
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
– Alan Dundes
Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
– Giambattista Valli
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
– Mikhail Bakunin
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
– Kathy Ireland
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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
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
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
– Anthony Trollope
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
– Vera Wang
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
– Jason Schwartzman
As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.
– Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
– Kelly Ayotte
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
– Kevyn Aucoin
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.
– Michelle Obama
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
– Toby Young
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
– Jesse Ventura
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
– Eartha Kitt
Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
– Maurice Saatchi
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
– Adam Rich
Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
– Hugh Jackman
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
– Carly Fiorina
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
– Nancy McKeon
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
– David Hume
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
– Jena Malone
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
– Robert Tew
Respect yourself enough to let go of someone who doesn’t see your worth.
– Robert Tew