Values & Character: Respect Quotes

Lorna Luft, Actress

"In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview"

Michael Kinsley, Journalist

"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion"

Max de Pree, Businessman

"I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met, and I am honored to be apart of it"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any"

Fred Astaire, Actor

"Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind"

Joel Madden, Musician

"Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not"

Akshay Kumar, Actor

"My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?' It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled"

Amy Adams, Actress

"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"I don't want to offend people"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else"

Jon Stewart, Entertainer

"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

"You can disagree without being disagreeable"

Amy Klobuchar, Congressman

"I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals"

Tommy Lee Jones, Actor

"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves"

U Thant, Statesman

"That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out"

Shelby Lynne, Musician

"But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"

David Shuster, Journalist

"I do not at all have the mind of a bully... In my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me"

Conrad Black, Businessman

"I promise not to become a source of shame for you"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"A hero is someone we can admire without apology"

Kitty Kelley, Journalist

"There are Congressmen in our congregation, judges, Federal Reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years"

James Green Somerville, Writer

"From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?' I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market"

Brad Thor, Novelist

"Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"Rule number one is make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them"

Marion Ross, Actor

"I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing"

Shania Twain, Musician

"That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity"

Justin Sane, Musician

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