Quotes About Respect

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.

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.

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.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

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

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.