Selected respect quotes

1. Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master...

2. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.

3. For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

4. Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

5. The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

6. Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

7. A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.

8. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

9. I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

10. You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

11. I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

12. 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.

13. I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

14. People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

15. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

16. If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

17. Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

18. Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

19. If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

20. My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.

21. Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

22. If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

23. Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

24. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

25. There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

26. Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

27. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

28. The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

29. It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

30. When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

31. There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

32. In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

33. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

34. The system should treat all user input as sacred.

35. The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

36. Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

37. There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

38. A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

39. Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

40. There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

41. There is no jesting with edge tools.

42. But if I'm out here, let me be. I want to bite as many people as I can. Bite them back, so to speak.

43. When the soul, then, in any degree possesses the spirit of solitary love, we must not interfere with it. We should inflict a grievous wrong upon it, and upon the Church also, if we were to occupy it, were it only for a moment, in exterior or active duties, however important they might be. When God Himself adjures all not to waken it from its love, who shall venture to do so, and be blameless? In a word, it is for this love that we are all created. Let those men of zeal, who think by their preaching and exterior works to convert the world, consider that they would be much more edifying to the Church, and more pleasing unto God - setting aside the good example they would give if they would spend at least one half their time in prayer, even though they may have not attained to the state of unitive love.

44. Queen Elizabeth II expressed her 'deep sorrow' at the death of Pope John Paul II and remembered his efforts at promoting peace throughout the world. Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the world has lost a religious leader who was 'revered across people of all faiths and none'.

45. He (the Emperor) is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.

46. (When asked about his name by President Bush) 'My name is Mr. Fischer. What's your name?' (October 22nd, 2005) [1]

47. I always had the feeling that Goebbels didn't respect people as a whole. He was reckless in his contacts in his own office. He had no consideration for anyone. He was only concerned about governing.

48. 'So don't go around dumping people. That's the moral of that story.'

49. O Carpenter of Nazareth, Whose mother was a village maid, Shall we, Thy children, blow our breath In scorn on any humble trade? Have pity on our foolishness And give us eyes, that we may see Beneath the shopman's clumsy dress The splendor of humanity!

50. 'Jude Law is a wonderful partner in these things. ... He's totally respectful. He's a very nice professional guy. He's the perfect person to do something like this with.' Cameron Diaz [4]

51. Where angels fear to tread, You go rushing in. Stay out of this You must not interfere Don't you see this is Between a man and a woman?

52. 'I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It's like that. With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. He's just that fierce competitor. He doesn't want to get out-showed. He's the one who everybody's afraid of.' - w:Gilbert Arenas[11]

53. 'Last year (October 2004), the nation celebrated a week of reconciliation and forgiveness, supported by all our main religions and numerous civic organizations and individuals from all our ethnic groups. Some of those who had suffered particular hurt in 2000, questioned the motives behind this and did not feel they could take part. Their views must be respected. They endured an ordeal which left deep wounds.'

54. 'We must learn to respect each other's views and to differ without anger or ill will.' (14 July 2005)

55. 'Let us respect each other and avoid causing unnecessary hurt to those with beliefs and faiths different from ours.' (Pacific Magazine)

56. 4) It is a sin to waste the reader's time.

57. The politician has a right to defend his dignity. I ignored the first wave of invectives, but the second one was too much, I couldn't have handled it and I had said in hard (but for the street - where I was - soft) words that he should go.

58. I respect her talent and her brain and who she is as a person - and that kind of admiration and respect is a big factor in binding someone in a relationship. I know what a good heart she has, and how empathetic she is with all kinds of people and issues - she's so brilliant on top of it that she can voice these things. And she's as funny as she can possibly be. She makes me laugh.

59. When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to be a subhuman species anyway.

60. Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth.

61. We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.

62. I am hurt because somebody just got called a fag, or a dyke, or a pansy, or a sissy, or a bulldyke, or a chink, or a nigger, or a kike, or a wetback, or an injun, or a jap, or a bitch, or a whore, or a cunt, and unless to you that's a term of endearment... in the right context, it is... that person is being attacked because of who they are, and I don't accept that.

63. He is a very smart cookie, Michael. He knows what he wants, he knows what he is doing. I have nothing but admiration. Also, he is a very kind person.

64. He's the only person I've ever met who talks to me as I wish to be talked to.

65. Hey, you can't boo me! I'm Mick Foley! I'm the human muppet!

66. Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it, and I didn't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name - it means beloved of God - and I insist people use it when speaking to me and of me.

67. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. (Sometimes quoted as 'No Viet Cong ever called me a nigger.')

68. I hit him so hard that I made him cry. He looked at me and said, 'I'm going to get you for that.' I respected him then, and I respect him now.

69. Saw the superb funeral of the Protector:...but it was the joyfullest funeral that I ever saw, for there were none that cried, but dogs, which the souldiers hooted away with a barbarous noise; drinking and taking tobacco in the streets as they went.

70. Women should be treated with respect. Growing up around them all my life, I've learned that important factor.

71. You really can't do it can you? Can't what? Can't bow down and kiss your feet? Can't shut up to save your life.

72. She wants what everybody wants - to be loved and cared for, to be part of something beautiful and fine, to have the respect of those she admires.

73. Please stop reassuring me of how respectful you are whenever you're about to tell me that I'm an idiot.

74. Most men were like this - relatively unconnected, unbound, alone. But these men were particularly untrusting and ungiving, and so the bonds that held them to each other was fragile indeed. It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

75. I knew you could shed that folksy talk the minute you wanted to Yes, I can do that. Just as I can speak French to a Frenchman and Spanish to a Spaniard and four kinds of red talk depending on which tribe I'm with. But you, do you speak scorn and mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?

76. Do you begrudge her this: that once in her life she had a man who loved her with his whole heart, if only for that moment?

77. We have played at venues up and down the country on this tour, some of which had no security, and have encountered no problems or witnessed any aggression. I simply asked the bouncer last night to apologise for his behaviour, three times in fact, and he refused. I was very upset at his attitude and although I'm very sorry for letting everyone down last night, I refuse to play at venues where pumped up, 16 stone men feel the need to be aggressively rude and to bully teenage kids around.

78. Something good has happened to us. We are, dare I say it, a professional unit these days. When people get us in a room together now, they actually treat us like musicians. Before, they would treat us as anything but: pigeon fanciers, candles, dry humpers...

79. Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him. -- Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

80. Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

81. 'It's not necessary to flaunt your body or talk nasty'

82. We respect our parents and they respect us. Even when we were younger, it was never, 'Well, I'm the parent and you're the kid.' You wouldn't be held back because of your age. Just the opposite. My father used to say, 'The youngest gets to yell the loudest because they're never listened to!' My father talks to Summer, who is the youngest, the way he talks to my grandfather or anyone else. They always gave us a fair shot.

83. That's the story of my life, no respect, ya know?

84. I know that the real Brockovich liked to dress provocatively; that's her personal style and she's welcome to it. But the Hollywood version makes her look like a miniskirted hooker, with bras that peek cheerfully above her necklines.

85. Roger Ebert is a national treasure. He is the most recognizable and well known movie critic. He has been my favorite writer for some time now. I do not always agree with his opinions, which is my right, but he always backs them up. He is not someone who will say that such and such about movie X is bad and leave it at that - he will give the reasons for his thought process.

86. Having learned with sadness of the death of President Reagan I offer to you and your family my heartfelt condolences and the assurance of my prayers for his eternal rest. I recall with deep gratitude the late president's unwavering commitment to the service of the nation and to the cause of freedom as well as his abiding faith in the human and spiritual values which ensure a future of solidarity, justice and peace in our world.

87. First of all, I should like to express from the very bottom of my heart condolences for the passing of President Ronald Reagan who was deeply respected by the people of the United Sates and who left many important achievements.

88. Politicians, quite rightly, are not surrounded by mystique. Doctors, quite wrongly, too often are.

89. Vous etes mon ami personnel. Vous etes assure de mon estime, de ma consideration et de mon affection.

90. When I want your opinion I will give it to you.

91. I have known books written on Tolerance, the proper title of which would be - intolerant or intolerable books on tolerance. Should not a man who writes a book expressly to inculcate tolerance learn to treat with respect, or at least with indulgence, articles of faith which tens of thousands ten times told of his fellow-subjects or his fellow-creatures believe with all their souls, and upon the truth of which they rest their tranquillity in this world, and their hopes of salvation in the next, - those articles being at least maintainable against his arguments, and most certainly innocent in themselves?

92. Victor: White people won't respect you if you don't look mean. You have to look like a warrior, like you just got back from killing a buffalo. Thomas: But our tribe never hunted buffalo. We were fishermen. Victor: What, you want to look like you just caught a fish? This isn't Dances with Salmon, you know!

93. Because the water raises rice and the fishes live in the water, I don't want to contaminate it.

94. The thing about Colbert is he's fucking brilliant... He was always the smartest guy in the room, and he was always smart enough not to let you know he was the smartest guy in the room.

95. 'You see the stuff he plays through, and you can't have anything but respect for him. It makes you want to play harder, play through stuff.'

96. 'I like Steve's style because his style is my style.'

97. As Buddhists, while we practice our own teaching, we must respect other faiths, Christianity, Judaism and so forth. We must recognize and appreciate their contributions over many past centuries to human society, and at this time we must strive to make common effort to serve humankind.

98. His Holiness opposes violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation. He urges respect, tolerance, compassion and the full recognition of human rights for all.

99. Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood.

100. I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.