Values & Character: Respect Quotes

"All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man"

Richard Whately, Writer

"People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them"

Terri Windling, Artist

"I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people"

David Talbot, Journalist

"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price"

Joan Didion, Author

"I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Bullies are always cowards at heart, and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life is to listen well"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater"

Bono, Musician

"Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal"

Nancy Cartwright, Actress

"I'm trying to be more of a gentleman"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job"

William Feather, Author

"But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

"A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

"Don't hustle old people"

John Burns, Activist

"I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more"

Catherine Bell, Model

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