Top 100 Be Respected Quotes
#1. We declare our right on this earth ... to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
Malcolm X
#2. 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 Dostoyevsky
#3. It is important that a woman's "noes" be respected and her "yeses" be respected.
Warren Farrell
#4. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#6. If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
Rosa Parks
#7. Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
Kofi Annan
#8. I feel like women still deal with dressing appropriately for the office. It's by choice - you don't want to sexualize yourself too much. You want to be respected. You want to be taken seriously, and there's certain things in our culture, if you do, if you wear, you won't be taken seriously.
Elisabeth Moss
#9. I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
Sharon Stone
#10. It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
John Bytheway
#11. Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
Frederick Douglass
#12. I was nine when I figured out it's better to be respected than liked.
A.D. Aliwat
#13. It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
Marquis De Lafayette
#14. I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.
Lil' Mama
#15. I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#16. Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. Somehow as children he and Tiger Lily had been shuttled together - both misfits or, as I liked to think of them, strange exotic birds, one too fierce to be hemmed in as a girl, and the other too hesitant to be respected as a boy.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#18. I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.
Bryan Batt
#19. I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.
Paul Gascoigne
#20. I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.
Cakes Da Killa
#21. I'd rather be respected than loved.
Eli Broad
#22. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
James Madison
#23. Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
Rocco Buttiglione
#24. Innumerable soldiers have told me they don't want to be thanked for their service and they don't want to be seen as heroes (or, for that matter, villains). They want to be respected for the job they did and the pride they took in doing it well.
Elizabeth Heaney
#25. Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.
Tsai Ing-wen
#26. France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#27. In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
Iyanla Vanzant
#28. I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.
Osamu Dazai
#29. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.
Pope Benedict XVI
#30. Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.
Lewis Hamilton
#31. Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
Peter Camejo
#32. Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the more indefensible a thing is the more it should appeal to us for a certain kind of defence.
G.K. Chesterton
#33. My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
Mario Monti
#34. If we want to be respected and honored when we're older, then we must lay the groundwork by respecting and honoring the elders we meet in our lives today. How we treat them today is the way we'll be treated later.
Louise Hay
#35. I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.
Fawzia Koofi
#38. We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.
Sheila Heen
#39. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
Thomas Paine
#40. Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#41. One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
Bette Davis
#42. There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Eric Schmidt
#43. Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Sam Houston
#44. A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.
John F. Kennedy
#45. Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.
G.A. Henty
#46. We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.
Renzo Rosso
#47. The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry ... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.
Kris Allen
#48. All jobs must be respected, because they are being done unto God.
Sunday Adelaja
#50. If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world ... and I think we will be respected around the world.
William Kristol
#51. 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
#52. The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
Jack Kevorkian
#53. Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
Yani Tseng
#54. All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected.
Abhishek Ratna
#55. You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.
Kelli O'Hara
#56. I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma
#57. Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners
Robertson Davies
#58. I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
Randall Park
#59. Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.
Don Shula
#60. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
Isaac Hayes
#61. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Michael Bassey
#62. I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
Tichina Arnold
#63. The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
Sydney J. Harris
#64. Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.
Pico Iyer
#65. There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.
Kevin Hart
#66. A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
Iris Murdoch
#67. The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson
#68. In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins
#69. The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
Mike Lee
#70. Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.
Bohdi Sanders
#71. I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
Caitlin Moran
#72. And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.
Chinua Achebe
#73. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
#75. My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
Robin Hobb
#76. Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
Danger Mouse
#77. All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.
John Shelby Spong
#78. It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.
Ban Ki-moon
#79. A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. I want to be respected. I want to be powerful. And yes, I want to be special. I want to leave a mark on this world so no one forgets who I was.
Morgan Rhodes
#81. What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.
Dave Barry
#82. My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.
Kenna
#83. All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions
John Calvin
#84. The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
H.L. Mencken
#85. I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.
Audrey Tautou
#86. My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.
Nayvadius Cash
#87. I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.
Martine McCutcheon
#88. I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected. I
Jodi Picoult
#89. For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.
Zoe Saldana
#90. The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#91. I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
Vladimir Putin
#92. People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.
Joseph J. Lhota
#93. A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.
Axel Munthe
#94. Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified
Sunday Adelaja
#95. The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
George Stevens
#96. The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#97. You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected
Gottfried Bohm
#98. Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Lech Walesa
#99. By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
Eli Whitney
