Top 100 Much Respect Quotes
#1. Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.
Anna Julia Cooper
#2. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.
Cesar Chavez
#3. With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.
Cheryl Hayashi
#4. I think new life is the most exciting thing and I absolutely have so much respect for my friends and family that have gone and done it because it seems like the hardest job in the world. So, who knows - maybe one day I might try it myself. But I completely salute anyone who does.
Christine Bottomley
#5. Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.
Emily Post
#6. I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting ... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.
Amy Adams
#7. Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set ... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.
Elisabeth Shue
#8. When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
Drew Barrymore
#9. Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.
Franz Beckenbauer
#10. I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give the writer I'm publishing a good deal of control in shaping the book and figuring out how it looks, but I'll make suggestions on how to make it stronger.
Kevin Sampsell
#11. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.
Christopher Dines
#12. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.
Sharon Law Tucker
#13. It might be that women who have been
nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught
to have too much respect
Sherwood Anderson
#14. I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
Seth Godin
#15. What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
#16. I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
Randy Harrison
#17. I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
Luther Allison
#18. We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
Radha Mitchell
#19. I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Jackie Robinson
#20. I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
#21. Considering you are pretty much like this the whole time whether you're onstage, whether you're in the van, whether you're eating, whether you're in the hotel room. So everyone has their moments and you kind of learn to respect people's space when they're not in a good mood.
Barry Privett
#22. As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. I've done my work and I'm happy with it ... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
Brandon Lee
#24. For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
Larry Fitzgerald
#25. In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.
Chi McBride
#26. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.
Scottie Thompson
#27. I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.
Raf Simons
#28. The world doesn't really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt - to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.
Billy Graham
#29. I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.
Michael J. Saylor
#30. I'm glad you like adverbs - I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry James
#31. I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
Clare Bowen
#32. I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel
#33. For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
Luke Evans
#34. I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Those with sick fantasies who know and respect this difference are much less dangerous than those with no fantasies at all, but who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
T.J. Dixon
#35. It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov
#36. You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.
Marina Abramovic
#37. I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
Avril Lavigne
#38. I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.
Susan Estrich
#39. I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
Rufus Sewell
#40. I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.
James Gray
#41. Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
Ernest Hemingway,
#42. So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.
Brian Molko
#43. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
Clive Owen
#46. By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from Him
Thou who has loved him more than Thyself! Respecting him less, Thou wouldst have asked less of him. That would have been more like love, for his burden would have been lighter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
Barbara Jordan
#48. If people treat you like shit, you treat them like shit right back. They won't like it, but they'll respect it. It's a lonely road. Although, truth be told, I enjoyed being alone. Life was much clearer.
Tijan
#49. I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
Ryne Sandberg
#50. Simple question,' Uncle Todd repeated. 'Do you deserve respect?'
'Yeah,' Dylan answered.
'Well, you're never deserving of any more respect in life than you give. I don't see you showing the world much respect. Until you show the world respect, the world won't respect you, and neither will I.
Ben Mikaelsen
#51. In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. The good we do.
How much we create.
The respect we bestow.
How hard we love - no one gets to vote on these.
Alexandra Silber
#53. I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.
Gregory David Roberts
#54. There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.
Mark Twain
#55. A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
Duane Chapman
#57. I don't cook. I respect food too much.
Eva Mendes
#58. We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.
Temple Grandin
#59. Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.
Gail Jones
#60. Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
Sonia Sotomayor
#61. The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
Michelle Bachelet
#62. Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
Gary Ryan Blair
#63. If you know anyone struggling with his or her sexuality, the best thing you can do is be there for them, respect the process and treat them the same as you always would. It helps so much to know you're not alone.
Connor Franta
#64. Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
Magic Johnson
#65. I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.
Ray Lewis
#66. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#67. Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.
Sunny Deol
#68. In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
Christopher Wren
#69. I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
FKA Twigs
#70. I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
Betsey Johnson
#71. I like and respect Elisabeth Hasselbeck so much. I'm from a political party that represents half the country.
Nicolle Wallace
#72. You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
Martha Beck
#73. In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.
Edward Abbey
#74. What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Doris Lessing
#75. I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
Brendan Fraser
#76. I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.
Torrey DeVitto
#77. I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.
Johann Hari
#78. Thankfully, life is a journey of progress and not perfection, and we can improve our blurred reflection by taking up the Sword of the Spirit. We can find a healthy dose of just how much God loves us in the Bible and start to have as much respect for ourselves as God has for us.
Kristen Clark
#79. I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.
Harrison Ford
#80. This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.
B. Barmanbek
#81. A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others.
Sandranil Biswas
#82. Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs
don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.
Charity Shumway
#83. You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people ... you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.
Lorraine Heath
#84. I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
Orhan Pamuk
#85. I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.
Stephen Karam
#86. A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.
Tiesto
#87. And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect ... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.
Georg Ganswein
#88. For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.
Albert Einstein
#89. People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.
Barbara Mikulski
#90. As much as I want your respect, you never, ever live your life to make someone else happy. You got me?
Kristen Callihan
#91. Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.
Reba McEntire
#92. Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.
Ben Carson
#93. I have nothing against Dylan O'Brien! He's one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work.
Katherine McNamara
#95. If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.
Elizabeth Janeway
#96. The Writer's Oath
I promise solemnly:
1. to write as often and as much as I can,
2. to respect my writing self, and
3. to nurture the writing of others.
I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.
Gail Carson Levine
#97. Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.
Bill Cosby
#98. I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.
Megan Ellison
#99. I have so much respect for what's funny.
Bernie Mac
#100. Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much thought goes into creating a role, so I'm always interested to find out what was the thought process of the writer and how best can I convey it rather than trying to change it to suit myself.
Naomie Harris