Values & Character: Respect Quotes

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

Little Richard, Musician

"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person"

Charles Evers, Activist

"It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person"

Ike Turner, Musician

"A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean, some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners"

John McGahern, Writer

"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem"

Michael Berryman, Actor

"People can't help how they look"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me"

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"I think that by ignoring the show, you're ignoring the audience who put you there"

Simon Cowell, Entertainer

"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind"

Dennis Prager, Journalist

"I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick, or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day"

Angie Stone, Musician

"We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day, I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity that he will be confirmed"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics"

Michael Bennett

"I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything"

Kristanna Loken, Actress

"I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books"

Ann Rule, Writer

"But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others"

Perry Como, Musician

"I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing"

Bobby Bonilla, Athlete

"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other"

Chris Ware, Artist

"Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there"

Ann Rule, Writer

"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"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him"

Rip Taylor, Comedian

"I always respect a woman"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, to be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree"

Peter Gay, Historian

"Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part"

George Carey, Clergyman

"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I would rather be respected than elected"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

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