Respect Quotes

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.

Reality, Him, Law

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Everyone, Individual, Respected

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein

Individual, Respected, Idolized

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Someone, Him, Law

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Confidence, Once, Esteem

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

Human, Ask, Concerned

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

Yourself, Everybody, Simply

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

Heart, Himself, Private

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Willing, Bores

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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey

Love, Give, Owe

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

Down, Leader, Authority

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood

Power, Yourself, Real

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill

Another, Actually, Listening

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Enemy, Friend, Him

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

Fear, Nothing, Based

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon

Opinions, Mistake, Whose

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

Great, Nothing, Brilliant

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trust, Fear, Hate

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson

Integrity, Individual, Test

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne

Others, Ourselves, Manners

America wants its respect.
Tupac Shakur

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker

May, Wrong, Please

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human, Him, Eyes

If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Abdul Kalam

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving

Important, Greater, Popularity

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