People often talk about respect in terms of how it should be shown to others, but what does respect actually mean? Respect is defined as a feeling or attitude of admiration and deference toward someone or something that is considered important, prestigious, or superior. Respecting someone doesn't always mean agreeing with them, but it does mean listening to them and considering their opinion. Here are 29 quotes about respect that will help you better understand this important word.
Quotes About Respect
2. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. - Albert Einstein
3. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. - Albert Einstein
4. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X
5. If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. - Abraham Lincoln
6. I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. - Jackie Robinson
7. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu
8. When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. - Mark Twain
9. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. - Marilyn Monroe
10. Respect is what we owe love, what we give. - Philip James Bailey
11. 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
12. 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
13. One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. - Bryant H. McGill
14. Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. - Friedrich Nietzsche
15. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. - Albert Camus
16. I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. - Edward Gibbon
17. Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18. 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
19. 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
20. Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. - Laurence Sterne
21. America wants its respect. - Tupac Shakur
22. 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
23. 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
24. If we are not free, no one will respect us. - Abdul Kalam
25. I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. - Julius Erving
26. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. - Tecumseh
27. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. - Voltaire
28. It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan
29. There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. - Henri Frederic Amiel
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