Values & Character: Respect Quotes

"I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy', and usually they will"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"I think she looked at Vivien the same way. Of course you can. You know. And, and yet with great respect, because she knew how hard it must have been. And that it was even harder for him, of course, than for her"

Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress

"I'm very open-minded"

Gabrielle Reece, Athlete

"Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them, and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt"

John Hench, Artist

"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Respect a man, he will do it the more"

James Howell, Writer

"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"If everyone would look for that uniqueness, then we would have a very colorful world"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line"

Major Owens, Politician

"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women"

Gordon B. Hinckley, Clergyman

"We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something"

John Lone, Actor

"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back"

Joseph Jackson, Businessman

"When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things"

John Dingell, Politician

"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice"

Harold Ford, Politician

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"I'm not an American, but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right"

Anne Wilson Schaef, Writer

"We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own"

Anne Wilson Schaef, Writer

"Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with"

Steve Nash, Athlete

"They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!"

Harry Hopkins, Diplomat

"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own"

Little Richard, Musician

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