Respect Me Quotes

• You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

  Jose Mourinho

  Like Me

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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

  Ray Lewis

  May, Want, If You Like Me

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

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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

  Motivational, Change, Baseball

  "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

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• Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

  Mike Tyson

  Respect, Honesty, Kindness

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  Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hate, Mean, Cutting

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• Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  Confucius

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

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• He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Respect, Self Esteem, Coats

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1501, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Respect, Idols

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Respect, Inspirational Life, Warrior

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Respect, Empty Places

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2002, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

  Bradley Cooper

  People, Want, Way

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• I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

  Tupac Shakur

  Leadership, Respect, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

  Jane Haddam

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

  Harper Lee

  Respect, Black And White, Men

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

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• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality.
  Be not simply good;
  be good for something.
  All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, People, Needs

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• If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

  David Hasselhoff

  Ifs

  "David Hasselhoff hopes for a retro ‘Knight Rider’ movie". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.vancouversun.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

  Roger Federer

  Play, Parent, Tennis

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• I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Views, Tactics, Close Minded

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• I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

  Scott Caan

  People, Good Work, Should

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• If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, Ifs

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• I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

  Andres Iniesta

  People, Feelings, Affection

  "Andrés Iniesta: Football isn't a science. We play this way because it suits us" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.

  Frankie Muniz

  Years, Two, People

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• I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Character, Criticism, Censure

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• If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

  Magic Johnson

  Reality, Hands, Games

  "Magic Johnson says Donald Sterling should sell Clippers" by Matt Moore, www.cbssports.com. April 27, 2014.

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