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Top 100 Respect Quotes and sayings

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In this post you will find Top 100 Respect Quotes and sayings.

 

Respect Quotes and Sayings

 

“Respect is the first and most basic of human rights.” — C. Yost

 

“Respect a man, he will do it the more.” — James Howell

 

“Treat others the way you wish to be treated.” — Golden Rule

 

“Respect starts with yourself.” — Proverb

 

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” — confucius

 

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” — Bruce Lee

 

“No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.” — Aesop

 

“Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.” — Mona Sutphen

 

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” — Maya Angelou

 

“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” — Enri Frederic Amiel

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” — Confucius

 

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” — Albert Camus

 

“Men are respectable only as they respect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.” — John Jay Chapman

 

“A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.” — African proverb

 

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” — John Herschel

 

“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

“If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.” — Spanish Proverb

 

“When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.” — Criss Jami

 

“Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.” — Joe Clark

 

“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.” — Herbert H. Lehman

 

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.” — Axel Munthe

 

“If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.” — Dale Murphy

 

“Let get this clear up! God loves you & cares about you.” — Rev Run

 

“I don’t wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.” — Mariano Rivera

 

“Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.” — Rev Run

 

“With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.” – — Dustin Johnson

 

“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” — Dr. Seuss

 

“The only respect you should have is the one you earn.” — Stellan Skarsgard

 

“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.” — Herbert H. Lehman

 

“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” — Julius Erving

 

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” — Albert Camus

 

“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for one’s self-respect to be a punching bag.” — Edward Koch

 

“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.” — Ray Davis

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” — Laurence Sterne

 

“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential.” — Anna Gould

 

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” — Albert Einstein

 

“Not respecting yourself, is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate.” — Anonymous

 

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” — Roy T. Bennett

 

“One of the sincerest forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” — Bryant H. McGill

 

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” — Lao Tzu

 

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” — Jackie Robinson

 

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

“Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.” — Hussein Nishah

 

“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.” — Robert Schuller

 

“Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them” — Albert Schweitzer

 

“Respect begins with this attitude: I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth.” — Gary Chapman

 

“Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.” — Stephen Cosgrove

 

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

 

“If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.” Ayn Rand

 

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” — Albert Einstein

 

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” — R.G. Risch

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it — Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” — Thomas Paine

 

“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” — Eldridge Cleaver

 

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” — Confucius

 

“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.” — Plutarch

 

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” — Bono

 

“Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.” — Buddha

“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

“Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.” — John Cogley

 

“If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.” — Max Nordau

 

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” — Lao-Tzu

 

“This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.” — William Lyon Phelps

 

“To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” — Oren Arnold

 

“Never take a person’s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.” — Frank Barron

 

“Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.” — Robert B. Laughlin

 

“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.” — Thomas S. Monson

 

“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.” — Thomas S. Monson

 

“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

“Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.” — Aretha Franklin

 

“You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.” — Buddha

 

“We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.” — Pope Benedict XVI

“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

 

“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

“You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: ‘When you respect money, money will respect you.” — Yaya Toure

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” — Jackie Robinson

 

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” — Jane Nelson

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” — Malcolm X

 

“Respect for another man’s opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.” — Sargent Shriver

 

“The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.” — Renee Olstead

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.” — George Washington Carver

 

“I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.” — Blake Lively

“Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it’s the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn’t matter who you are: I’m going to respect you.” — Andy Reid

 

“You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.” — Pele

 

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

“My one thing is respect. I don’t care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you – the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.” — Charli XCX

 

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