“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

“Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.”

Michael Madsen (1957) American actor

“You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”

Toni Morrison book God Help the Child

“Don't you think women would like a man's head that always listens to them and agrees?”

Rudy Rucker (1946) American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher

“The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.
The felings you say you have, you don't have.
The feelings you would like us both to have, we
neither of us have.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

“It's not to pretend you can do everything, but if people like you – in the sense of admiring or having respect for what you are trying to do – then they will understand the odd blemish. If people don't like you, and lack confidence in what you are trying to do, they won't forgive you anything.”

Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland

“They don't respect you. It's almost as they think they have the right to your life just because you're a celebrity. I don't accept that.”

Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945) Swedish female singer

“I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.”

Ned Vizzini (1981–2013) American writer