Quotes about respect
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“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

“It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Way, Search, Learning

“If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In the House of Commons (3 February 1949), as quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 17 ISBN 1586486381
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Law

“Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Courage, Loyalty

“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”

Richard Halliburton (1900–1939) American writer

The Royal Road to Romance (1925).
Context: Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world... and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

Beauty, Search, Freedom

“We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made"
"Oh… In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Learning

“The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 61
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

Life, Art

“What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Religion

“Six questions respects it. Twenty questions doesn't.”

Jay Conrad Levinson (1933–2013) American business writer

Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness

Question

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

Summer, Deep

“I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

People, Truth, Time

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”

Dean Koontz book Relentless

Source: Relentless

Way

“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Love, Men, Hate, Soul

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: Personal Success

Women, Men, People, Imagination

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Dogs, Clothes

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

Personality

“Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Love, Law, Country

“Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

People

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: Sayings of Confucius

Attitude

“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

War, Time

“Life takes us on different paths… It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.
(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Life

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16
Context: The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y. M. C. A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

World

“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.”

E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

Source: Ragtime

Friendship

“I should like friendship with you… and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Friendship, Sex

“I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation

Source: The Pillars of Creation

Love, Life

“It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Life, Feeling, Tree, Animals

“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Intelligence, Parting, Personality

“Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Death

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life…”

Elizabeth Goudge book Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

Life, Bird, Tree, Time

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

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace and the Bomb

“I respect everything I make fun of.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

“If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.”

Trudi Canavan book The Magician's Apprentice

Source: The Magician's Apprentice

People, Appearance

“You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?"
"I believe in them all."
Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?"
Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Truth, Religion, Smile

“There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 23; translated by Luigi Ricci

Men, Truth, Way, Understanding

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Men

“Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.”

Emily Post (1872–1960) American etiquette expert

Sense

“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: The Other Side of the Story

Friendship

“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Loneliness

“To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s ego, huh?”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Guy, Girl, Memory

“He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool?”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Fools, Thinking, Cheating

“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Then Comes Seduction

People, Hurt, Hurtful

“I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.”

Stephen R. Donaldson (1947) Novelist

“We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Secret, Thinking

“We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

People, World, Feeling

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

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

World

“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.”

Paulo Freire book Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

People, World, Education

“Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

Way

“I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Men, Happiness, Peace

“You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.”

Larry King (1933) American television and radio host

Source: How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (1994), Ch. 1: Talk 101, p. 28

People, Thinking

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

Love, Men

“Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

“Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Fear

“If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.”

Maimónides (1138–1204) rabbi, physician, philosopher

Study, Personality

“What the hell is that look for? You finally grow a conscious? (Syn)
No, but we can’t go around assassinating respected officials. (Nykyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Hell

“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Literature

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), as quoted in Milan Kundera (2003) by Harold Bloom, [//books.google.it/books?id=SXDojRJFMPIC&pg=PA91 p. 91]
Context: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Suffering, Animals

“You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Understanding, Forgetting