Respect Quotes

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Inspirational, Effective Listening, Listening To Others

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• Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

  W. H. Auden

  Civilization, Diversity, Unity

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

  Laurence Sterne

  Self Esteem, Ethics, Morality

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• Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  People, Enough, Handle

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

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• Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

  Cory Booker

  Helping Others, Giving, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Aug 24, 2016

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• Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Honesty, People, History

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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  Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

  William Arthur Ward

  Blessed, Blessing, Envy

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• Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Freedom, Kindness, Character

  "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.

  Bob Proctor

  People, Mind, Important

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from May 26, 2013

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Idols, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Character

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing

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• Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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

  Jackie Robinson

  Motivational, Change, Baseball

  "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

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• If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

  Ted Turner

  People, Enemy, Dignity

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• My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Color, Skins

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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  Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, Understanding, Tolerance

  Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• Respect yourself and others will respect you.

  Confucius

  Life, Self Esteem, Yoga

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• In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Numbers, Fool

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.125, Oxford University Press

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• The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

  Frosty Westering

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Understanding, Tolerance, Trying

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  Maya Angelou

  African American, Black Women, Phenomenal Woman

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Want

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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