Values & Character: Respect Quotes

"I don't like cheap shots, I really don't!"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"I don't want to do anything in bad taste"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity"

Ricardo Montalban, Actor

"Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay"

John Linder, Politician

"I don't think a tough question is disrespectful"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior"

Diahann Carroll, Actress

"Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may"

William Cobbett, Politician

"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe"

James Whistler, Artist

"Remember, likewise, there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Awe and respect are two different things"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any"

Nikolai Gogol, Writer

"To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own"

John Gray, Author

"People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"The Queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story"

Young Buck, Musician

"I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know, and they feel comfortable with, and trust, hopefully, and respect even"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them"

Scott Baio, Actor

"I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there"

Katie Price, Model

"You don't say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?"

Joe Pesci, Actor

"That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done"

David Amram, Composer

"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power"

Barbara Deming, Author

"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved, but I think it's very important"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman"

Ann Robinson, Actress

"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness"

James Goldsmith, Businessman

"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming"

Natalie Imbruglia, Musician

"The most important thing to do is really listen"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

""Walk a mile in my shoes" is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place"

Neil Kurshan

"Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way"

Jose Bergaman, Writer

"I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others"

Roscoe Conkling, Politician

"I hate wasting people's time"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

"The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her"

John Norman, Writer

"Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought"

Margaret Chase Smith, Politician

"To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give"

Tristan Bernard, Playwright

"Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct"

Tiberius, Statesman

"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

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