Quotes about respect
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“Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Wisdom

“Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.”

Robert Greene (1959) American author

Money

“Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

“How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?”

John Updike book Rabbit Is Rich

Source: Rabbit Is Rich

World

“There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Hit.
Panic.
Flail.
Freeze.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Way, Girl, Boy, Night

“Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: The Prize

“Things did change. He’d gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he’d ever say so out loud”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Jealousy, Courage, Change

“When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

Nature

“you can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he does't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Variant: Relationship Principle 10
You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?'
'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Way, Personality

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 1, ch. 11
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Thinking, Personality

“Forcing him to talk about feelings all the time will not only make you seem needy, it will eventually make him lose respect. And when he loses respect, he’ll pay even less attention to your feelings.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Feeling, Time

“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Freedom, Country

“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Herzog on Herzog (2002), On Klaus Kinski

Love, Hate, People, Thinking

“Boomerang arrow, Kate -- It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.”

Matt Fraction (1975) American comic book writer

Source: Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon

“I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this?”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Wild Card

Hell, Help

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Love

“Just because something’s damaged doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be treated with respect”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“You can’t immerse yourself in something,” Prof said softly, “without coming to respect it.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Firefight

“If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Thinking

“Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Dead

“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Love

“Above all things, respect yourself.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

Variant translations: Respect yourself above all. As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras http://www.sacredscience.com/pythagoras.htm by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999) Above all things reverence thy self. Above all things, respect yourself. Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. The Golden Verses Variant: Above all things reverence thy Self.

“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

People

“It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Men, Heart

“I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Fear, Heart

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

Jeffrey Archer (1940) English author and former politician

Life, Strong

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Love, Youth

“You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist

Business, Suffering

“With all respects to heaven, I like it here.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.”

Malorie Blackman book Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

People

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Wise

“Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

Guy, Hell

“Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.”

Brandon Sanderson The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Nature, Personality

“And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others”

Vikas Swarup (1961) Indian novelist and diplomat

Source: Q A: Slumdog Millionaire

Life, Money, Dreams, Time

“What the hell is this?” Desandra asked
“This is Cuddles. She's a mammoth donkey.”
Derek grinned, leaning on the fence. “Do you have any self-respect left?”
“Nope.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Hell

“None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark times? My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Time

“By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Angels

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Men, Money

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”

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

Secret, Education

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Truth, Understanding, Thinking

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Time, Sincerity

“She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

People

“Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, School

“This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”

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

Life

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)

People, Faith, Religion, Confidence

“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

God, Happiness, Suffering

“I'd come to respect the bag.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Way

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

Love, Children

“I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Cats, Sleep

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Love, Fish, Dead

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Law, Penalty, Communication, Reality

“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Way

“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Hope, Decision, Science

“We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

Love, Marriage, Faith, Sense

“You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

People, World, Search

“Men didn't respect beauty… they used it.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Montana Sky

Men, Beauty

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”

Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer

“(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect… you know… like being people.”

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) author, activist, professor

Source: Raymond's Run

People, Flowers, Business

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Henry, Act II, scene V
Source: The Real Thing (1982)

Children, World, Thinking, Dead

“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Intelligence

“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

People, Feeling, Sense, Help

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

Toni Morrison book God Help the Child

Source: God Help the Child

Love

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Education, School

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

Though often attributed to Galbraith, as early as 1988 in U.S. News & World Report, the earliest publications of this statement, in The Bulletin (1984) and Reader's Digest (1985) attributes it to Ezra Solomon.
Misattributed

“What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered.
Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.'
Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Men