Quotes About Earned Respect

#1. Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. Respect is earned, not given

Someone

#3. Rank is a paycheck. Respect is earned. If you find yourself reminding people of your rank, then you are just a paycheck.

Michael A. Wood Jr.

#4. Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.

Habeeb Akande

#5. Respect is not given, it is earned.

Brian Dawkins

#6. Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

Tamara Rose Blodgett

#7. Whenever I hear the crowds going WOOOOO!! It makes me feel very good, it means I've worked very hard and earned a lot of respect, each night I go out there I go out there for the fans to make them smile, or make them cry.

Ric Flair

#8. Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.

Robert Jordan

#9. Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

Tony La Russa

#10. The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!

Assegid Habtewold

#11. In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

Randall Kennedy

#12. Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed.

Brett J. Talley

#13. Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.

Habeeb Akande

#14. When next you see Anomander, tell him this from me: he chose wisely. Each time, he chose wisely. Tell him, then, that of all whom I ever met, there is but one who has earned my respect, and he is that one.

Steven Erikson

#15. Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

#16. If you believe you're right ... stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

Erin Brockovich

#17. People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned
it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned
and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Charles A. Murray

#18. The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the 'rank' is not absolute. 'True respect' is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.

Rajat Mishra

#19. Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It's like building trust. You don't instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

Mike Krzyzewski

#20. Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.

Julie Garwood

#21. Power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life

Blanco Vandam

#22. Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

David Gemmell

#23. Respect is earned not handed out

Kee

#24. What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?"
"You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.

Maria V. Snyder

#25. Once you've proved to [the players] that you can help them become better players, you've earned their respect. They respect if you've achieved at a high level in this league, but that's not what they respect you for as a coach.

Brendan Daly

#26. Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN.

Craig Groeschel

#27. I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Al Barlick

#28. Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

Aaron Lauritsen

#29. Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.

Orson Scott Card

#30. I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.

Shabazz Muhammad

#31. You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

Lorii Myers

#32. A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

#33. We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#34. Respect is both earned and lost.

Bohdi Sanders

#35. You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time you learned some respect!'
'It's time you earned it,' said Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#36. I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.

Paula Patton

#37. Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other to make it lasting.

John

#38. In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Jane Haddam

#39. A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#40. I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

George M. Gilbert

#41. Buford didn't dress for respect, he earned it. He didn't try to get his name in the newspapers, instead he led with deeds that caused his men to follow his guidon with confidence and the full expectation of success.

Eric J. Wittenberg

#42. I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

Curt Schilling

#43. Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.

Auliq Ice

#44. All respect is earned, even self-respect.

Bohdi Sanders

#45. Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!"
Harry: "It's time you earned it.

J.K. Rowling

#46. Respect is earned by effort not age, all things age without effort.

C. Sean McGee

#47. I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

Raquel Cepeda

#48. Keeping secrets made you powerful. Being powerful earned you respect.
Respect was hard currency.

Terry Pratchett

#49. Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect and friendship of my training partners, who were mostly Japanese men sincerely surprised to find themselves training with an American woman.

Linda Holiday

#50. Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

Linda Tripp

#51. Respect is earned.

Steve Berry