Respect Quotes

"I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat." Muhammad Ali

"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority." Vince Lombardi

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." C. S. Lewis

"Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'" Barry McGuire

"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

"Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that." Penn Jillette

"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

"Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?" Marilyn Monroe

"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself." K. D. Lang

"My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do." Gerard Way

"Being respectful, can take a person to a level even beyond his fate." Muhammad Mohsin Munawar Yousafi

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going." J. B. Priestley

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect." Thomas Huxley

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." Richard Bach

"A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal." Nancy McKeon

"When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you." Suresh Raina

"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

"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

"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life." Elizabeth Edwards

"Value of a man depends upon his courage, his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor. " Ali ibne abi Talib (A.S)

" A person asked him, "What is generosity & magnanimity" He replied, To secure & protect the religion, & respecting one's soul, (self respect) and softness of conduct (gentleness in behavior) & permanency of favor & kindness & the discharging of rights." Hazrat Hasan ibne Ali A.S

"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

"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled." Gene Fowler

"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 would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him." Emma Watson

"'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see." Jencarlos Canela

"My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance." Katy Perry

"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

"Don't ask for respect. Earn it." Dr. Bilal Ahmad Mohsini