Respect Quotes

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

Albert Einstein



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




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



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.



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



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



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



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


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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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