Respect Quotes

• Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

  Cory Booker

  Helping Others, Giving, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Aug 24, 2016

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• One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Inspirational, Effective Listening, Listening To Others

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Self Esteem, Ethics, Morality

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

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• Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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  Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

  William Arthur Ward

  Blessed, Blessing, Envy

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• Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Freedom, Kindness, Character

  "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Idols, Individual

  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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• 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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• If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

  Ted Turner

  People, Enemy, Dignity

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• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Character

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing

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• Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Integrity, Communication, Honest

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• 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 Dostoevsky

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Want

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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• They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Determination

  "Fictional character: Mohandas K. Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Mother

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• I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Inspirational, Ethics, Opinion

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

  Bono

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Civil Rights

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• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  Tecumseh

  Native American, People, Groveling

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  Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Death, Philosophy

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

  Linda Tripp

  Assignments, Deserving

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• I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Believe, Important

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

  Edward Gibbon

  Life And Love, Mistake, People

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• Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

  Anna Gould

  Success, Beautiful, Wise

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Literature, Brilliant

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• You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Destiny

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