Values & Character: Respect Quotes

"Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs"

William Allen White, Editor

"But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"Critics established a snobbery toward me"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me"

David Beckham, Athlete

"We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned"

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"I don't want to be someone's entertainment"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard"

Erik Qualman, Author

"The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"I am and always will be an HRH. But, out of personal choice, I like to be called William, because that is my name, and I want people to call me William - for now"

Prince William, Royalty

"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I really look up to Amy Adams, who I got to work with, Meryl Streep, and Angelina Jolie"

Sydney Sweeney, Actress

"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you"

LL Cool J, Musician

"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child"

Phyllis McGinley, Author

"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"Oppression is more easily endured than insult"

Junius, Writer

"I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live"

Enya, Musician

"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Each man in his way is a treasure"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

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