The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.
Tupac Shakur

Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield

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.
Newt Gingrich

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen