Values & Character: Respect Quotes

"We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody"

Bob Anderson, Writer

"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being, I don't"

Joan Chen, Actress

"Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in"

David Brudnoy, Entertainer

"Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies, you have my respect"

Lou Diamond Phillips, Actor

"There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart"

Michael Shanks, Actor

"I respect people and expect that kind of respect back"

Dennis Franz, Actor

"Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view"

Dick Morris, Author

"Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism, I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them"

Randy West, Entertainer

"It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition"

Glenda Jackson, Actress

"Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser"

John Breaux, Politician

"It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further, am therefore resigned to stop here, if, sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities"

Andrew Sullivan, Journalist

"The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France"

Alain Juppe, Politician

"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit"

Ben Bradlee, Editor

"As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes"

Al D'Amato, Politician

"Let us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others"

Charles Inglis, Clergyman

"Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people"

Bessie Head, Writer

"If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor?"

Robert Chambers, Writer

"Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity"

John Wilson, Writer

"No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed, whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church?"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"I would never let myself knock out a journalist"

Gerard Depardieu, Actor

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