Respect Quotes

Everyone is looking for respect. Earning respect is often a hard task. There are thousands quotes about respect. Some of the most popular respect quotes are often about feeling you deserve respect,self respect and respect for your parents. On this page you will find a large variety of respect quotes.

Of The Best Respect Quotes

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete everybody will respect you.
• Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around.
• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Respect Quotes From Famous People

• Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. ~Marilyn Monroe~
• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. ~Mark Twain~
• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ~Confucius~
• 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 Dali
• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. ~Abraham Lincoln~
• He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect. ~Cicero~
• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? ~Confucius~
• 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 men, charity. ~Benjamin Franklin~

Self Respect Quotes

• Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
• If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
• They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ~Ghandi~
• He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.~Henry Wadsworth Pierce~
• If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.~Ayn Rand~
• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
• Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
• The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
• No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect.