Top 100 Quotes About Respectful
#1. The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
Iain Sinclair
#2. Some minutes passed before anyone hastened to the aid of the elderly man sitting there collapsed in his chair. They bore him to his room. And before nightfall a shocked and respectful world received the news of his decease.
Thomas Mann
#3. I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.
Christopher Eccleston
#4. Loving Norah meant being respectful about what made her happy. And I wanted her to be happy; I just wanted her to be happy with me.
Angela Richardson
#5. It doesn't kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it!
Lily Amis
#6. I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.
Tommy Hilfiger
#7. Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.
Tulsi Gabbard
#8. Laura's upbringing made her wonder for a moment whether it was quite respectful of a workman to talk to her of bangs slap in the eye. But she did quite follow him.
Katherine Mansfield
#9. It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we're talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.
Carl Sagan
#10. The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn't the role he played in his life these days. A respectful spy. How quaint.
Erin Kellison
#11. Gaining patience and a positive attitude, being polite and respectful to the most negative person, and being able to have insight into the type of person you are dealing with are all important for a lifetime of success.
Penelope Holmes
#12. If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
Douglas Hofstadter
#13. I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.
Daniel Boulud
#14. Your Majesty," he greeted. His respectful expression turned sour as he addressed Iko, "Madame Counselor." Iko's eyes went coppery with pride at her new title, even though she met the guard with a sour glare of her own.
Marissa Meyer
#15. My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.
Mickey Drexler
#16. I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
Nick Stahl
#17. I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Chuck Yeager
#18. Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.
Alice Walker
#19. Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
Vanessa Ferlito
#20. Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.
Ricky Gervais
#21. In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.
Steven Adler
#22. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
#23. I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.
Dave Eggers
#24. He was being patient and respectful of my wishes
L.B. Dunbar
#25. There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
Hal Borland
#26. When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.
Woody Allen
#27. I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.
Joel Madden
#28. Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.
Zoe McLellan
#29. Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.
Wayne Dyer
#30. You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.
Ai Weiwei
#31. Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.
Liza M. Wiemer
#32. Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.
Jahmene Douglas
#34. I definitely don't read any tabloids. You really have to find a way to separate the words of people you respect - stranger or not, but respectful content, positive or negative - and people who are just in pain and projecting their own sh*t onto you.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#35. The grill-room clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
Saki
#36. Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
Georges St-Pierre
#37. We are all blinded by our beliefs. Never stop questioning and realize only respectful discussions can free us from our delusions.
Jim Steele
#38. I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
Nate Lowman
#39. I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.
Bryce Harper
#40. The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.
Confucius
#41. I am patient with my needs, kind with my words, and respectful of my soft places.
Cheryl Richardson
#42. For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.
Peter Drucker
#43. Encourage the women in your life - your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters - to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.
Lundy Bancroft
#44. North could have kissed her. He could have done it, he could have swooped in, but he was being respectful. It made her want to devour him whole. Or be devoured whole.
Stephanie Perkins
#45. Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way ...
Martin Starr
#46. I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments.
Justin Trudeau
#47. Apparently he was supposed to be respectful to potential employers and maintain friendly eye contact while keeping his body language amiable. It was obvious why his tactic of glaring them into submission and demanding a job had not worked.
Santino Hassell
#48. The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,
for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?
Samuel Johnson
#49. ... now that I'm stuck here for an undetermined amount of time, it seems beyond foolish not to let me help." She took a bite for emphasis. "You could at least let me make you a sandwich," she added balefully through her mouthful.
"That was me being respectful of your law degree," Ian said.
Suzanne Brockmann
#50. Dear elders! Age will not carry your respect level always. But your words do! Stay respectful.
Nelson Jack
#51. I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
Axl Rose
#52. As men write letters they become more caring, understanding, and respectful; as women write letters they become more trusting, accepting, and appreciative.
Anonymous
#54. It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
Mark Cuban
#55. Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?
Kevin Gates
#56. Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
Karl Malone
#57. him, for she thought it was the respectful thing to do.
Leona Fox
#58. Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
Pope Benedict XVI
#59. I don't like boys who are mean to their mommies. That's a real turn off for me. And I don't like boys who aren't chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal.
Megan Fox
#60. I think I was respectful to my father in that I only told the portions that he had already told. So, I never went outside of the things that he had already stated in his article because then I think it becomes unfair.
Michael Landon Jr.
#61. My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.
Patti Davis
#62. For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
Gautama Buddha
#63. I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that ... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and ... preposterous.
Bono
#64. I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
Callie Khouri
#65. Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.
Stone Gossard
#66. When you cook, you take a life. When you eat fish, or meat, you take a life. And you must be very respectful of the ingredients and that is very important.
Joel Robuchon
#67. My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people
Patrice Motsepe
#68. What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.
Thomas Perez
#69. Do what we will, we are alone. The sooner we learn that, the better; and the more we are fit to be alone with ourselves, the more we are respectful to the individuality of others, and therefore the more we are fit to associate with our kind. This was a paradox she would have to learn for ourselves.
Howard Spring
#70. Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source.
Charles Dickens
#71. When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.
Joan D. Chittister
#72. I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid
#73. In a respectful relationship, each person understands, "I am responsible to know what is going on inside me and communicate it to you. I do not expect you to know it, nor will I allow you to assume that you know it. And I will not make assumptions about what is going on inside you.
Danny Silk
#74. It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
Jack Kornfield
#75. In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
William Kittredge
#76. He was polite, respectful, not daring even to hold Mi-ran's hand until they'd been dating for three years.
Barbara Demick
#77. Many people make the mistake of expecting others to treat them in a more loving and respectful way than they treat themselves. If you don't love yourself, stop expecting others to. If you don't respect yourself, stop expecting others to.
Steve Maraboli
#78. His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.
Ayn Rand
#79. The vast majority is sociologically intellectual and respectful but realistically idiotic and despicable.
Daniel Marques
#80. your boss is an older sibling. You'll always be respectful, but you won't hesitate to offer frank advice when you think it's warranted - and you'll never suck up.
Gary Hamel
#81. As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.
Francois Hollande
#82. The parent can change his mind in the context of respectful appeal, but not in the presence of blatant rebellion.
Tedd Tripp
#83. If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you know, I'm not saying roll out a red carpet, but, like, open the door and just be polite and just have common courtesy. I don't think that's too much to ask.
Carly Aquilino
#84. The third aspect of change is a systematic development of respectful and inspiring working conditions for teachers and principals in Finnish schools.
Pasi Sahlberg
#85. A boss should be respectful of everybody. He should still make sure everybody knows that he is the boss, without having to say it 24/7, but by him approaching you in a way that led you to know that you mean something to the company.
Kevin Clash
#86. I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.
Goose Gossage
#88. I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.
Esther Rolle
#89. Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
Jerry Leiber
#90. One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
David Icke
#91. The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James W. Black
#92. Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
David Amram
#94. Dom is generous, loving and respectful to not only his submissive, but all women. He is gentlemanly in public, but playful in private and a savage in the bedroom.
Ella Dominguez
#95. We're in the business of luxury and there's nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.
Phoebe Philo
#96. For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#97. Ladies, use a loving voice, use a respectful voice, use a godly voice, but don't lose your voice.
Mark Driscoll
#98. Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion.
Conan O'Brien
#99. Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.
Justin Trudeau
#100. You know, when you're real and speak your truth (in respectful ways), people won't always like you. But you'll like you.
Robin Sharma
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