Values & Character: Respect Quotes

"I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with"

Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me"

Dinah Shore, Actress

"I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is"

Phylicia Rashad, Actress

"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet

"I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency"

Deborah Kerr, Actress

"I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries"

Darrell Royal, Coach

"Nobody responds to being made to feel judged"

Shalom Harlow, Model

"I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world, well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate"

Bruce Davison, Actor

"I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack"

Mark Rydell, Director

"I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information"

Peter Arnett, Journalist

"You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out"

Tom Daschle, Politician

"There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is, and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me"

Jennifer Tilly, Actress

"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you"

Marcel Carne, Director

"I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted"

A. J. Foyt, Celebrity

"That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously"

Rainer W. Fassbinder

"Oddly, my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception"

Joanna Trollope, Novelist

"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others"

Jena Malone, Actress

"I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are"

Michelle Hunziker, Actress

"I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

"Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"If you don't love it, don't touch it"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done"

Mark Pryor, Politician

"I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people"

Little Milton, Musician

"Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West"

Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman

"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right"

Martin C. Smith, Writer

"Whatever insults my State insults me"

Preston Brooks, Politician

"You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"The staff, stage managers, ushers, all behaved as if they respected the actors"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right"

Queen Latifah, Musician

"Civility is perhaps a quaint notion, but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

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