Famous Respect Quotes and Sayings of all Time

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” — Laurence Sterne

“We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.” — Malala Yousafzai, lack of respect quotes

“Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” — R.G. Risch

“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” — Maya Angelou

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” — John Herschel

“If I lose my honor, I lose myself.” — Shakespeare

“Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion forms our true honor.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Respect is the appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.” — Annie Gottlieb

“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Respect is for those who deserve it, not for those who demand it.” — Paulo Coelho

“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” — Julius Erving

“One of the sincerest forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” — Bryant H. McGill

“Respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.” — John Cena

“The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.” — Renee Olstead

“If you don’t stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do.” — Miranda Lambert

“Show respect to all people but grovel to none.” — Tecumseh

“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.” — Aretha Franklin

“Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.” — Kiana Tom

“Respect for the rights of others means peace.” — Benito Juarez

“All sides must learn to respect each other.” — Reuven Rivlin

“When we respect everyone around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.” — Don Miguel Ruiz

“I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.” — Mo Farah

“I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.” — Derek Jeter

“Respect is what we owe, love, what we give.” — Phillip James Bailey

“He who wants a rose, must respect the thorn.” — Persian Proverb

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me, all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” — Jackie Robinson

“Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.” — D. B. Harrop

“Respect is how to treat everyone.” — Richard Branson

“Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is a human.” — John Cogley

“Respect is one of the most important things you can teach a child.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“Awe and respect are two different things.” — Oliver Reed

“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis of all morality.” — Frank Herbert

“Life is short, we should respect every moment of it.” — Orhan Pamuk

“Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.” — Albert Schweitzer

“This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” — William Lyon Phelps

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” — Clint Eastwood

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” — Albert Einstein

“Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.” — Mona Sutphen

“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” — Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.” — Hussein Nishah

“He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.” — Mencius

“How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.” — Wayne W. Dyer

“A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.” — African Proverb

“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” — Roy T. Bennett

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” — Lao Tzu

“Women absolutely deserve respect.” — Aretha Franklin

“I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.” — Emma Bunton

“Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that’s how I see it.” — Joe Torre

“You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.” — Amber Heard

“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.” — Robert Schuller

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” — Michael Bassey Johnson

“He that respects himself is safe from others, he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you live what you believe you will always have the respect of others.” — Dale Murphy

“Respecting someone indicates the quality of your personality.” — Mohammad Sakhi

“My one thing is respect. I don’t care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you — the people who work for you, peers. Be classy. — Charli XCX

“Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.” — David Robinson

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.” — Dave Willis 

“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.” — John W. Gardner

“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.” — Ray Davis

“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.” — Albert Einstein

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” — Confucius

“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” — Eldridge Cleaver

“I don’t wait for people to give me respect, I always give them respect.” — Mariano Rivera

“With me, what you see is what you get. I try to treat everyone with respect.” — Dustin Johnson

“Respect for another man’s opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.” — Sargent Shriver

“The only thing I command is respect.” — Kyrie Irving

“Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it’s the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn’t matter who you are: I’m going to respect you.” — Andy Reid

“I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.” — Scott Cann

“Respect other people regardless of the level they are at or the level you are at. When you hand out respect you get it back.” — Erik Estrada

“Respect begins with this attitude: I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth.” — Gary Chapman

“The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.” — Comic Strip Mama

“Respect depends on reciprocity.” — Nyang Proverb

“Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.” — Nikki Giovanni

“Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.” — Dalai Lama

“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” — Henri Amiel

“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me, not success.” — Hugh Jackman

“The only way to teach respect is to model it.” — Todd Whitaker

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” — Bono

“Respect a man, he will do the more.” — James Howell

“Never take a person’s dignity, it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.” — Frank Barron

“You will never gain anyone’s approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.” — Mandy Hale

“Respect comes in two unchangeable steps: giving it and receiving it.” — Edmond Mbiaka

“If a person loves you but doesn’t respect you then it cannot be real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.” — Amit Kalantri

“In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.” — D.B. Harrop

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.” — Charles Bayard Mitchell

“Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to If you don’t have that.” — Marilyn Monroe

“It takes no compromise to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect an individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.” — Harvey Milk

“We don’t need to share the same opinion as others, but we need to be respectful.” — Taylor Swift

“When I look at a person, I see a person — not a rank, not a class, not a title.” — Criss Jami

“The idea of respect is more than just being polite.” — Bruce Glassman

“Respect means recognizing that all people are entitled to basic human dignity.” — Bruce Glassman

“We do not earn respect. It is given as a gift. What we do with it is up to us.” — Tod Whitaker

“True friends will respect one another’s viewpoints without letting differences in opinion affect the relationship.” — Robert Arp

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” — Roy T. Bennett

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” — Confucius

“Men are respectable only as they respect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson