Respect Quotes

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Whether you be a man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?

Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It’s a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.

Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)