Respect Quotes

I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

I respect people and expect that kind of respect back.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.