Respect is the cornerstone of healthy, thriving relationships, wether your best friends, lovers, family, or just a random person you’re interacting with on the street. To get respect, you need to give it in turn. Use these quotes about respect as a roadmap on giving the respect to others that they deserve & manifesting true self respect for yourself at the same time.
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Respect Quotes
“If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If we are not free, no one will respect us.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Respect toward others can’t be imposed. It’s a blessing or learning the hard way.” – Toba Beta
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“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” – Jackie Robinson
“Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” – R.G. Risch
“Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.” – Mona Sutphen
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“Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.” – Cary Grant
“Respect is for those who deserve not for those who demand it.” – Paulo Coelho
“Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.” – Habeeb Akande
“There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself.” – James D’arcy
“Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies, and competition.” – John Cena
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” – Dalai Lama
“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.” – Simone Elkeles
“Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.” – Alphonsus Liguori
“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” – Amit Kalantri
“If she does not respect you, she will replace you.” – Habeeb Akande
“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
“I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.” – Taylor Swift
“Men are respectable only as they respect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white.” – Aretha Franklin
“Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.” – Philip James Bailey
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” – Confucius
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein
“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.” – Norman Cousins
“Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.” – Stephen Cosgrove
“If you are not being treated with respect, don’t be a doormat.” – Robert Rain
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” – Albert Einstein
“Respect depends on reciprocity.” – Nyang Proverb
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” – Albert Camus
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” – Jacques Maritain
“Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.” – Kiana Tom
“If we can respect the divine within us, if we can treat it with dignity, then we can respect others around us.” – Vishwas Chavan
“When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.” – Jean Vanier
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.” – Malcolm X
“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
“You will gain more respect and esteem through listening rather than through talking.” – Clive Harman
“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” – Stockwell Day
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” –
“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” – Steve Hall
“Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.” – Benjamin E. Mays
“Respecting someone indicate the quality of your personality.” – Mohammad Rishad Sakhi
“Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.” – Pink
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Respect out of fear is no respect.” – M. K. Soni
“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.” – Herbert H. Lehman
“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
“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
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” – Bono
“You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.” – Lawrence Goldstone
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” – Malcolm X
“Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return.” – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
“I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” – Maya Angelou
“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.” – Robert Michaels
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” – John Herschell
“Respect should be the first thing you give.” – Anonymous
“Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.” – Lakhdar Brahimi
“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
“Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.” – Orhan Pamuk
“Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.” – Jasmine Guinness
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” – Bruce Lee
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” – Hunter S. Thompson
“Take very little notice of those people who choose to treat you poorly. It is how they are defining their story, not yours.” – Lei Wah
“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.” – Frank Herbert
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” –
“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
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryant H. McGill
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” – Laurence Sterne
“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.” – Thomas S. Monson
“You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect.” – Mary J. Blige
“The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.” – Ayad Akhtar
“We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another.” – John Lynch
“Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” – Eldridge Cleaver
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” – Tecumseh
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston S. Churchill
“If you can’t Respect her, you don’t Deserve Her!” – Udayveer Singh
“Humility and respect tell much more about your background than your personality.” – Kate Iroegbu
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