Respect Quotes

Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you're trying to gain their respect and increase your influence.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always.

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

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.